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FIRST 
IMPRESSIONS 

"The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out . 



I've been waiting until our print deadline i" write (his 
column because I was hoping that the news we've heard 
this week would turn out to be a molehill, not a mountain. 
Plus, I'm trying to be kind to my blood pressure. 

In case you hadn't heard, things in the Commodore 
liquidation proceedings took the strangest twi.st in an 
already bizarre tale when it was reported that two very 
Familiar reptiles had climbed back out of the primordial 
ooze possibly to play a role in the case. I say "possibly" 
because that's what we were waiting to hear as this issue 
went to press. (For a full report on the re-emergence of — 
dare 1 say it — Irving Gould and Mehdi Ali in the Com- 
modore case, see "Overscan," p. 4, in this issue.) 

Now, if living and Mehdi wind up crawling back to 
where they came from without a ripple, that's line — it will 
have cost us only a week or two in proceedings where 
delays have become SOP. But if they succeed in throwing 
a monkey wrench into the resolution of this case, they 
may achieve something even they couldn't cause when 
they were running the company (i.e., into the ground) 
themselves — killing off the Amiga. 

The prospect of having even part of the liquidation 
come under the jurisdiction of US bankruptcy courts 
seems to be making our old friends just a little nervous, It 
makes a person wonder if the stricter, twelve-month liabil- 
ity period for the actions of former company executives 
under US law (as opposed to three months in the Ba- 
hamas) has some hidden significance. While we certainly 
wouldn't care to speculate in print about such a mailer 
until the entire situation is brought to light — and those 
involved get to explain their actions — I bet there are 
more than a few .Amiga owners, not to mention members 
of the Commodore Shareholders' Movement, who might 
be willing lo venture some conclusions of their own. 

If (and this is still a very big "if as I write this) Irving 
Gould and Mehdi Ali succeed in significantly delaying the 
proceedings by filing an objection to the liquidators' plans 
for resolving this mess, it would be a tragically ironic out- 
come 10 this sony affair. Legal representatives for the liq- 
uidators, Commodore's creditors, and the parties seeking to 
purchase the rights to the Amiga were on the verge of work- 
ing out a veiT difficult, hard-foughl settlement to the case. 
Any further delay — especially from the corner that brought 
us to this impasse in the first place — may well have dire 
consequences for the future resurgence of the Amiga. 

Let's hope the perpetrators of the decline of the Amiga 
will not be allowed to finish what all their mismanagement 
and shortsightedness failed to achieve. Long live the Amiga! 



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April 1995 



CONTENTS 



VOLUME 11, NUMBER 4, APRIL 1995 



FEATURES 

Color Printers — Deux 

fl\ (,r;ri I l:l!:iiii: 12 

Print master l.udwick reprises his '94 
review of color printers with follow-up 

analysis — plus evaluations and prim 

c omparisons of two of the bright new stars 

"I the '95 season: Fargo's Primcra 1'ro and 
Epson's Color Stylus. 

ARTICLES 

Fractal Landscapes 

By Mark R. Brown 17 

Amiga landscape-generating programs 
allow yon to create entire worlds of your 
own devising. Here's how they work — plus 
comparisons of three leading commercial 
programs and a slew of PD/shareware 
offerings. 

Face to Face with MorphPlus 

By Chris Edgin 21 

Novice/intermediate users of Elastic 
Reality,' ASDtr's MorphPlus — or, for that 
matter, any morphing program — will 

benefit from these pro tips (with sample 
project) for creating heller, more realistic 
morphs. 

Getting Your Head Around 
ARexx — Part 1: Five-Minute 

AREXX fly Edward J. Cnrr 2 5 

\ new iliree-p.n i -eiies exploring the 
building blocks oi ARexx programming. 
Pan 1 gels ymi up and running bv show- 
ing von liow to master the simplest ele- 
ment — a code fragment — in just a matter 
oi ntinutes. 

C0LIM\S 

DENNY ON DOS By Denny Atkin 5 

I he hi si of a two-part mini-series oti 
getting belter hardropv results from 
AtnigalK >S's Preferences priming system. 
First up: printer-driver lips and tricks. 

Prime-Time PD By Tim Walsh 7 

Tim oilers nuts-and-bolts advice — and an 
assortment ol freely distributable files to 

download— t4i get you up and .surfing on 
the Internet. 



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Showdown at the Color Printer Corral — }>. 12. 
Fargo's neio Primers Pro Inch horns with 
Epson's recent Color Stylus in the battle of low- 
cost, high-quality color printers. 



Accent on Graphics 

By Joel Hagen ,>2 

With a scanner or digitizer, you can turn 
travel mementos, memorabilia, or just 
about any kind of collection into a "digital 
scrapbook" in a matter of minutes with 
these few simple techniques. 

DEPARTMENTS 

First Impressions 

By Daniel Sullivan 2 

Just when things were looking up in the 
Commodore mess, a "blast from the past" 
(actually, two of them) threatens to gum 
u]) the gears of the machinery of justice. 



Overscan 4 

Amiga news, newsmakers, and new 
products. 



A W Product 
Information 



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To contact the vendors of products 
mentioned in ibis issue ofAmigaWorld, 
consult our all-in-one "M.mnlac unvis', 
Distributors' Addresses" list. 



Help Key 56 

Tim's always on call for Eli duty when it 
comes to technical ills and spills. 

The Last Word 64 

Exercise vour First Amendment rights 
right here every month. 

REVIEWS 

IMAGEFX 2.0 (Nova Design) 8 

Ilia! most versatile of image-processing/ 
special-effects programs is bigger, better, 
and more comprehensive than ever. 

Personal Editor (Nucleus) and 

V-Station 3300 (Future Video) 10 

Big news fin' Amiga vidcographers: two 
new, top-notch edit controllers with very 
alfordahle [nice lags. 

Cobra (dkb) !J8 

Low-cost accelerator/RAM expander for 

I he A 1200. 

WORDWORTH 3.1 (Soft-Logih) 38 

Hie latest version of the leading word 
processor in lite UK is now available on 
ibis side of the drink. 

Personal Paint 6.1 (dkb) 44 

With brand-new features and support for 
AC -A Amtgas, a good paint program just 
got a whole lot better. 

GAMES 

By Peter Olafsoti 

Tower Assault (Team 17} 48 

The best, by hr, in Team 1 7"s Alien Breed 
series of action games, 

3-D Scrolling Update 48 

Fifteen new Amiga offerings in the excit- 
ing DoomAVollenstcin genre ol" free- 
scrolling action grimes first previewed in 
the Dec. "ill issue; Death Mask; Fears: 
Robinsons Requiem; Alien Breed 3D; 
Pooin 03B; TexlDcntuli; Denlaku 26; 
Warp S: Am iga-Wol I'll) 1.1; Motion; 
Killing Time; Psychedelic; I Shot Kurt 
Cobain; Quartcx; U'oll ,'i-l). 

Game Bits 54 

Quick notes on new releases in the Amiga 
game market. 



COVER PIIOTOCRAPH BY EDWARD JUDICE 



AmignWorld 3 



OVERSCAN 

News, New Products and More 



Former Commodore Execs May Delay Liquidation Proceedings 



As this issue was going 10 press, 
AmigaWorld learned that former Com- 
modore executives Irving Gould and 
Mehdi Ali may try to block a settlement 
proposed by the liquidators in the 
Commodore bankruptcy proceedings. 

In addition, it was reported that two 
new parties may enter the bidding 
process — joining CEI and the former 
management team of Commodore UK. 

In early February, The Philadelphia 
Inquirer reported that the liquidators had 
worked out an accord with Commodore's 
creditors that would clear the way for the 
purchase of the company. Under the 
terms of the accord, part of the liquida- 
tion would be adjudicated under Ba- 
hamian law and part under US law. 

That, however, raised die possibility of 
a jurisdictional challenge from former 
Commodore company executives Gould 
and Ali. Lawyers for the two men were to 
appear before the Bahamian Supreme 
Court to discuss whether a formal objec- 
tion to the proposed settlement would be 
filed to block further proceedings. 

That hearing, however, was post- 
poned when one of the judges was 
fore ed to take an emergency leave. The 



court was to reconvene sometime near 
the end of February. 

The basis of the objection would be 
that since Commodore Internationa] 
was incorporated in the Bahamas and 
Hied for liquidation under Bahamian 




Two familiar faces resurfaced in Febru- 
ary in the Commodore liquidation case: 
Irving Gould (right) and Mehdi Ali (left). 

law, US bankruptcy courts have no ju- 
risdiction in the matter — a point with 
which the creditors have disagreed since 
the beginning. The terms of the new ac- 
cord have already been accepted by US 
Bankruptcy Judge James Canity. 
The underlying cause of this dispute 



may lie with differing provisions of bank- 
ruptcy law under the two jurisdictions. 
US law provides that former executives 
of a company filing for bankruptcy can 
be held liable for actions taken up to 12 
months prior to filing. The more lenient 
Bahamian law stipulates only a three- 
month period. If some of the proceed- 
ings take place under US law, it could 
open die way lorihe creditors to file suit 
against Gould, Ali, and others lor possi- 
ble wrongdoing during the 12 months 
prior to Commodore's filing for liqui- 
dation last May. 

The Philadelphia Inquirer also reported 
that two new parties may enter the bid- 
ding process. Present in Nassau on the 
day of the postponed Supreme Court 
hearing were lawyers for the German 
computer distributor Escom AG (previ- 
ously rumored to be interested in acquir- 
ing Commodore) and an as-yet-unnamed 
"major American technology company." 

Regardless of the number of bidders, 
the crucial element in the proceedings 
now is how the Bahamian court will rule 
on the Gould/Ali objection and whether 
this will cause significant delays in 
resolving the liquidation. — DS 



DraCo: A New Life for the Amiga? 

A preview of MacroSystems' '060 workstation 



MacroSystems is 3 rare find these days. 
Not only is the German-based company a 
stalwart supporter of the Amiga, but if s also 
constantly redefining the market with inno- 
vative products, such as the VLab Motion 
board, the Retina Z3 display card, the 16-bit 
Toccata sound card, and Xi-Paint, its latest 
paint package. In a bold effort to revitalize 
the Amiga market, the company is produc- 
ing a Motorola 68060-based computer that 
uses the Amiga OS: the DraCo. 

Recently, AmigaWorld visited company 



headquarters in Witten, Germany, to find out 
just what all the buzz was about the DraCo. 

Sort of Amiga? 

Although still in the earliest stages of de- 
velopment, the DraCo workstation promises 
enormous potential for high-speed rendering 
on the Amiga. When complete, DraCo will 
utilize AmigaDOS 3.1 as its operating sys- 
tem. According to company president Jorge 
Sprave, MacroSystems has verbal agree- 
ments with all of the major parties bidding for 



the Amiga technology to license the OS as 
soon as the legal proceedings are complete. 

The DraCo concept is a unique one. For 
starters, no Amiga hardware will be used in 
the design (thereby sidestepping the cur- 
rent critical shortage of Amiga custom 
chips), yet the system promises 80% com- 
patibility with existing software because it is 
based on AmigaDOS 3.1. MacroSystems 
will also provide an option for DEC's Alpha 
chip to work as a coprocessor to the 6B0B0. 

The standard system will most likely include ' 



To locate the vendors of products mentioned, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 58. 



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Denny on DOS 



HINTS & TIPS FOR MASTERING THE OPERATING SYSTEI 



By Denny Atkin #11 — Driving Miss Daisywheel 



The Amiga's output 
has always looked 
good on screen. If 
you take the time to 
learn the ins and outs of the 
AmigaDOS Preferences 
printing system, you can 
make your hardcopy print- 
outs look just as good. This 
month we'll take a look at 
the Amiga's primer drivers; 
next time we'll delve into the 
Prefs editors that give you 
control over them. 

Although it's now a com- 
mon leature in computer 
operating systems, ten years 
ago the Amiga's use of a 
single printer driver for all 
programs was revolutionary 
in the personal-computer 
market. The Macs of the day 
supported only Apple print- 
ers, while PCs required a 
different printer driver for 
every program. 

The Amiga's centralized 
system means you need only 
one driver for all your pro- 
grams (with the exception of 
a few — such as WordPerfect 
and PageStream !5 — that use 
custom drivers in an effort to 
enhance printing capabili- 
ties). The drivers included 
with AmigaDOS support 
hundreds of different printer 
models; for those that aren't 
included, there are a variety 
of public-domain, shareware, 
and commercial drivers 
available. 

What Is Your 
Preference, Sir? 

Your printer may be sup- 
ported by a Preferences 
driver even if it's not listed 
in the AmigaDOS manual. 
Check your printer's man- 
ual for code-compatibility 
with a popular printer: Most 
modern dot-matrix printers 
are compatible with the 



Epson 24-pin standard 
(EpsonQ}, while most 
inkjeis and laser printers 
are I lewlett-Packard com- 
patible (IIP DeskJet and 
H P_LaserJ et , respectively). 

If you're in the market for 
a laser printer and von want 
PostScript for desktop- 
publishing purposes, try to 
find a primer dial's compat- 
ible with both PostScript and 
HP LaserJet (PCL) codes. 
Although AmigaDOS 
releases from 2. 1 on do 
include a PostScript driver, 

QUICK TIP: 

If you're using an Epson- 
compatible 24-pin printer, 
try the NEC_Pinwriter 
driver instead of the 
EpsonQ driver. This should 
work just as well for most 
applications, and will give 
you access to the 360-dpi 
resolution that the Epson 
driver doesn't support. 



it's not a very good one and 
may not work well with some 
applications. With a dual- 
emulaiton printer, you can 
use PostScript to get the best 
results from desktop-pub- 
lishing applications such as 
PageStream and Profes- 
sional Page, and shift back 
down to HP emulation for 
programs like Brilliance and 
SBase. 

If you set out to buy a new 
printer, you may find upon 
investigation (and by all 
means investigate before 
purchasing!) that although 
it's supported by a Prefer- 
ences driver, that driver 
doesn't let you use the 
printer to its full potential. 
For example, newer HP- 
compatible laser printers 



often support 600 dots-per- 
inch printing, but the Pref- 
erences driver supports only 
300 dpi. 

Another example is 
Canon's line of inkjet print- 
ers. While they understand 
Epson printer codes, you 
won't gel a good-looking 
printout if you try to use an 
Epson dot-matrix driver. 
Break out your modem and 
find a copy of Wolf Faust's 
Canon Studio package 
online. A stripped-down 
version of the original Stu- 
dio printer-driver software 
(more on this later), Canon 
Studio gives you much bet- 
ter control of your Canon 
printer's features. For a 
small fee, vou can upgrade 
to the lull-blown version of 
Canon Studio, which fea- 
tures multiple dither pat- 
terns and more. 

The Studio II 
Advantage 

Or better yet, give Noahji's 
a call and pick up a copy of 
Faust's Studio II printer 
software. This must-have 
package provides top-notch 
drivers for Canon Bubble 
Jets, HP DeskJets, LaserJets, 
and other PCL printers, 
most 24-pin printers, and 
die Epson Stylus series. This 
package includes fast drivers 
that can not only lake 
advantage of your printer's 
highest resolution, but can 
also support 256 gray levels 
and 54 dither methods, as 
well as your printer's built-in 
typelaces. 

The Studio II package 
also supports 24-bit output 
to color printers and 
includes a program for 
printing 24-bit images at 
sizes ranging from thumb- 
nails to multipage posters. 



There's even a Color Man- 
agement System (CMS) 
feature, with which you can 
precisely match your 
printer's output to your 
monitor, eliminating dark, 
muddy printouts. (If you 
own a scanner, Studio II can 
even do its calibration auto- 
matically.) This package is 
not inexpensive, but if out- 
put quality is important to 
you, it's well worth the 
price. 

Money-Saver Solutions 

If you're just looking for a 
better printer driver and 

don't want to spend much, 
there are still some good 
solutions. Endicor has just 
released its Epson Stylus 
Color driver, which supports 
the 720-dpi and Micro- 
Weave modes of Epson's 
superb color printer. 

Hewlett-Packard owners 
can look to Creative Focus's 
SuperDJS and SuperLJ4 
drivers, which dramatically 
improve output on DeskJet 
and LaserJet printers. 
There are also numerous 
public-domain and share- 
ware drivers available on 
networks and local bulletin 
boards. (To locale vendors of 
commercial drivers mentioned 
here, see the "Manufacturers'/ 
Distributors' Addresses" list, on 
p. 58.) 

Look for a continued 
discussion on printing next 
month. ■ 

Denny Atkin is author of the 
hook Denny Atkin's Best 
Amiga Tips and Secrets. 

Send suggestions to him via e- 
mail at DennyAmiga@aol.com, 
or unite to him c/o Amiga- 
World, PO Box 802, 80 Elm 
St., Peterborough, NH 03458- 
0802. 



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a CD-ROM drive in lieu of an internal floppy dri- 
ve and slots for all of MacroSystems' existing 
products, such as VLab Motion and Toccata, 
Rather than 8-brl RGB output, DraCo will use 
the Retina Z3 for 24-bit output. 

More than just a solution to hard-to-find 
Amigas, Sprave believes that DraCo could 
well be a cost-effective alternative to the SGI 
Indy, offering lower-priced software and 
more power for 24-bit nonlinear editing. 
Pending the outcome of the Commodore 




The new and improved VLab at work. 



V E R S C A N 

liquidation proceedings, look for MacroSys- 
tems/Noahji's to debut DraCo at NAB '95. 

More Irons in the Fire 

In addition, AmigaWorld was treated to a 
demonstration of the latest VLab Motion 
board and its MovieShop software on a 40 
MHz Warp Engine-equipped A4000. You 
may recall that VLab took some heat last 
year in earlier reviews, but the new hard- 
ware and software show marked improve- 
ment. Certainly, the documentation and 
beta software that accompanied our initial 
review copy did not do the system justice. 
According to Sprave, problems with the 
chips on earlier versions have been rectified 
since the chips are now soldered into place. 
Now MovieShop 2.1 totally controls VLab 
Motion and Toccata, at last delivering on 
the promise of a complete nonlinear editing 
solution. With Y/C video fed into the sys- 
tem, you can save, resize, and manipulate 
both the sound and video in real time. Fea- 
tures such as picture-in-a-picture, drag-and- 
drop editing, and time-line editing make the 
VLab system a breeze. Any feature or button 
that appears on the screen can also be du- 
plicated through ARexx commands. It would 



MacroSystems' DraCo: The next Amiga? 

take a seasoned videographer to distinguish 
VLab's MPEG output from the video. 

MacroSystems also demoed Xi-Paint 
software using its own Retina 23 as the out- 
put device. Surprisingly, the 24-bit paint 
package seemed faster than most 8-bit paint 
programs on the market. (Watch for reviews 
of VLab Motion 2.1 and Xi-Parnt in an 
upcoming issue.) — TW 



CD-ROM Gallery 

Need that extra bit of something for 
your animations? Amiga Library Ser- 
vices is offering a line of rnultiplatform 
CD-ROMs for LightWave users: Light- 
ROM 2 and Texture Gallery. 

Light-ROM 2 ($39.95) contains more 
than 650MB of scenes, textures, images, 
and objects. Texture Gallery (S44.95) is 
a two-disc set of 24-bit textures from a 
wide variety of categories, including 
marble, skin, and rock, to name a few. 
Each disc includes a thumbnail direc- 
tory for previewing images. 



External Sync 

Sync Trap ($29.95, PreVue Technolo- 
gies) adds an auxiliary BNC to the Video 
Toaster 4000 on a separate connector 
plate; all four Toaster inputs can then be 
used for active video signals without any 
concern for the Toaster's sync reference 
signal. Sync Trap's connector plate installs 
onto an otherwise blocked expansion slot, 
thereby freeing input 1 on the Toaster 4000 
board from being the dedicated sync input. 
(Note: a copper trace must be cut on the 
Toaster board in order for the Sync Trap to 
function properly.) 




Update Scan 

The CD 2001 (S2299) 
is a 20-inch display ver- 
sion of CO Solutions' CD- 

140 I desktop monitor. 
The monitor delivers .31mm dot pitch 
CRT and up to 800x600 resolution on a 
non-glare screen with top-to-bottom dis- 
play. The CD-2001 automatically svnes to 
a wide range of frequencies and has a wide 
video bandwidth of 65 MHz. 

Twist 2 ($149.95, Oregon Research), a 
relational database, will let you store any 
kind of file, including IFF, ANIM, and 
(PEG. It also offers full ARexx support 
for custom database programming, as 
well as various advanced options, such as 



import and export capabilities, cus- 
tomized output, and a built-in editor. It 
requires a hard disk and one megabyte 
of RAM. 

Also from Oregon Research is Squir- 
rel SCSI (S129.95), a PCMCIA SCSI-2 
interface that lets you share up to sev- 
en devices between your A 1200 and 
A600, including hard drives, CD-ROM 
drives, .SyQuest drives, and tape drives. 
When you combine Squirrel SCSI with 
a CD-ROM drive you can even play 
CD-32 game titles on your A] 200. 
Squirrel SCSI includes driver software, 
an audio utility to play CDs, and a CD- 
to-hard-drive sampler. 



AW Shucks! 

In the article "A Belter Mouse" (Jan- 
uary' '95, p. 18), I stated that I was un- 
aware of anv .Amiga programs that of- 
fered support for a third mouse button. 
It has been brought to my attention that 
several programs do indeed offer this 
support, including shareware utilities 
such as MMBShift (Preben Nielsen), 
MMB Commodity (Roland Janus). 
MultiCX (Martin Berndt) and Mouse 
Shift (Carrick Meeker). Most of these 
utilities can be found on GEnie, Compu- 
Serve, or anv Amiga-supporting BBS. 

On the commercial side. PageStream 
3.0 uses the third mouse button to repo- 
sition a page within the view window. 
Also, Directory Opus uses the third 
mouse button as an alternative to the 
Amiga-M keystroke, which brings the 
Directory Opus screen to the front. Sup- 
port for a third mouse button is becom- 
ing increasingly prevalent in many Ami- 
ga applications, so check with your 
software vendor for additional informa- 
tion. Thanks to readers William Near 
and Gregory Dormer for the insights. 
—Jeff James 



Overscan is compiled by Ann Record. Send 
your news to record@dv.com or mail it to 
Overscan, AmigaWorld, 80 Elm St., 
Peterborough, NH 03458. ■ 



6 April 1995 




Prime-Time PD 



ON-LINE SOURCES FOR FREELY DISTRIBUTABLE SOFTWARE 



By Tim Walsh 



Usually, when a com* 
puter manufacturer 
goes out of business, 
the users give a 
collective shrug and move 
on. Bui not so with the 
Amiga. A glance at network 
activity shows that almost ten 
months after Commodore 
went bankrupt, there*s no 
obvious indication that the 
Amiga market is ready io up 
and die. 

In the relatively short 
history of personal comput- 
ers, no other major plat- 
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(bottom) provide you with 
Internet access. 

lucrative "death." Even- 
where you look online, new 
programs — both commer- 
cial and freely distribut- 
able — are being written, 
and new users are buying 
new peripherals and not-so- 
new Amigas to use that 
software. At this point, we 
must most earnestly hope 
that a new owner will come 
along and pick up ihe 
pieces while there's still 



momentum in the market. 

Surf's Up! 

II you're equally committed 
to slaying with your Amiga, 
you might want to take up 
online surfing — as the 
exploration of the Internet 
is commonly called. Your 
lirst step in sharing itr the 
excitement ol'tlie Internet 
should he to read Han- 
Laser's "Browsing the Web" 
(AW. Mar. '95, p. 24). In this 
article. Harv explains all 
about how to start the Stirl- 
ing process and the ways in 
which it is different 
From the procedures 
involved in using a 
conventional online 
service. 

As mentioned in the 
article, voull lirst of all 
need a subscription to 
either a PPP (Point-to- 
l'oint Protocol) or a 
SLIP (Serial Line Inter- 
net Protocol) node, or, 
alternatively. The Inter- 
net Adaptor program 
(II A). You can usually 
locate a local node with 
a call to a computer 
store or users' group in 
your area. Once you've 
arranged access to a 
node, you can start gather- 
ing the necessary software. 
The public domain offers 
a variety of Amiga utilities 
lor accessing the Internet — 
so many, in fact, that the 
sheer number caught me by 
surprise when I tallied them 
up. Applications such as 
Amiga Mosaic, PI'P, Amiga 
TCP/IP (Transmission Con- 
trol Protocol/Internet Proto- 
col programs) and an assort- 
ment ol other necessary 
Amiga-specific utilities are 
readily available on tradi- 
tional online services. 



One of the first items you 
need to get onto the Inter- 
net is Holger Kruse's PPP 
Yl. :'.<>. a. SWA U-compati- 
hle PPP device that's needed 
for use with AmiTCP/IP. 
(SANA II is an Amiga net- 
work device-driver specifica- 
tion.) You'll need Kruse's 
program, which usually 
appears as PP1_3Q.LHA, to 
enter your IP number 
(assigned to you when you 
obtain a PPP account). The 
device also provides a way to 
connect two Amigas via a 
PPP link. 

Another file that's neces- 
sary for newbies is HOW2 
USEPPP.LHA. As its name 
implies, this is a text file 
describing how to get your 
PPP driver and connection 
configured. You'll find this 
file on both Aminet and 
GEnie's Amiga Roundtable. 

Amiga Mosaic and 
Other Alternatives 

Next, you'll need a copy of 
Amiga Mosaic and a copv of 
AmiTCP that's compatible 
with your version of Mosaic, 
of which there are four: 1.0, 
1.1. 1.2. and a demo version 
that's used for practice pur- 
poses. Briefly. 1 .0 represents 
the basic, no-frills hypertext 
front-end to the Internet, 
while LI offers AmigaDOS- 
3.x support, and 1.2 oilers 
World Wide Web (WWW) 
browsing capabilities. All 
three non-demo archives 
should come with corre- 
sponding copies of AmiTCP. 

.Ami TCP is also available 
as a stand-alone TCP/IP 
Network package. AM [TCP- 
BIN-22.LHA, a large (580K) 
archive, provides you with 
version 2.2 of the AmiTCP 
TCP/IP network software. 
The package also includes 



SANA II drivers for SLIP 
and for the A2060 and 
A2065 boards. AmiTCP 
works with any network 
board that offers a SANA II- 
compatible driver. 

Anodrer file you might want 
to retrieve to improve your 
newfound surfing prowess is 
Archie 1.32, which commonly 
appears as ARCHIL 132.LHA. 
This utility by George L. 
Coulouris provides an Archie 
client for AmiTCP 3.0 and lets 
you query anonymous LI P 
databases. Another version, 
which appears as ARCHIE 
38. 1 .LHA, is an Archie client 
for versions of AmiTCP earlier 
than 3.0. Another useful 
Internet utility is the archive 
DIALUPV3_01.LHA, a 
SUP/PPP dialer that lets you 
get a connection using a 
SANA-compatible device. 

Of course, all of this isn't 
necessary if you have a Por- 
tal or Delphi network 
account and can get by with- 
out a fancy WYW graphical 
interface. Both networks 
provide no-frills menus to 
she Internet and Usenel 
newsgroups. BIX also offers 
limited Inlet net access, with 
a numbered menu system 
that allows you to surf about 
the newsgroups using your 
Amiga's keyboard. 

Network Voice Numbers 

BIX 

800/695-4882 
617/354-4137 

CompuServG 

614/457-0802 

800/848-8199 

Delphi 

800/695-4005 

GEnie 

800/638-9636 

Portal 

408/973-9111 
800/433-6444 ■ 



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ImageFX 2.0 




Nova Design, $349.95 


Accelerator compatible. 


2.x/3.x required. 


Minimum system: 3MB RAM, hard disk. 


Hard-drive installable. 


Recommended system: 8MB RAM, 10MB hard drive 


Not copy protected. 


space, 68030 or faster accelerator. 



An update of 

the ImageFX 

image-processing 

software. 



I've always preferred Black Belt's Imagemaster 
as my Amiga image-processing program of 
choice. After seeing ImageFX 2.0, however, 
with its many paint, image-conversion, morph- 
ing, and effects tools, I'm impressed. What really 
sets il apart is its interface: it is die first Amiga im- 
age processor with an interface that you need not 
nierelv tolerate, but can actuallv enjov. 

The paint tools and effects gadgets behave more 
like a traditional paint program than those of 
either ADPro or Imagemaster, both ofwhich seem 
mmecessarilv complicated bv comparison. Virtu- 
ally all of the gadgets are "rollover" buttons that 
expand to a list of options when double-clicked. 
As a nice touch, context-sensitive AmigaGuide 
help is always a click away. 

Painting for Effect 

Although ImageFX lacks the sheer number of effects 
found in other image processors, you'll find all the 
essentials and then some. The Transform menu, for 
instance, features 2-D and 3-D rotation, including 
a sophisticated tool for rotating radial strips of an 
image bv specifying different inner and outer radii. 
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as shear, roll, interlace, and deinterlace, as well. I he 
Distort menu includes a variety of special effects 
that bear descriptive names like Warp, Swirl, and 
Dream (as in the traditional TV-stvle fade-to-dream 
sequence). Uncommon [oofs like Pinch and Punch 
let you squeeze and distort images from a Specified 
point, and Spherize maps an image around a 
sphere, complete with variable luminosity and an 
optional hot.spot. 

The Effects menu contains many simulated 
painting effects such as Oil Paint, Roughen, and 
Straw. PaintFX applies thousands of cumulative 
brush strokes to an image and creates an infinite 
variety of eye-catching, natural textures. Radial 
Star, Lens Flare, and Lightning provide dynamic 
effects and — like other tools in ImageFX — provide 
a thumbnail of your image for a preview of the 
effect before execution. 

You can even use the mouse inside die thumbnail 
to configure most effects, such as where the)' occur 
and how much area to influence. Unlike real light- 
ning, you can draw the exact path of ImageFX's 
virtual bolls on screen. On the down side, in order 
to make previews occur quickly, the thumbnails are 
small and difficult to see. 

Built for Expansion 

A Hooks menu gives you access to expansion mod- 
ules available through Nova Designs, third par- 




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lies, and the public: domain. Monks in- 
cluded with I he program invoke such 
external programs as CineMorph 
(bundled with ImageFX) and Opal- 
Paint. 

Many programs boast ARexx sup- 
port, but here the ARexx bution calls 
up a list of more than 40 prebuill 
ARexx scripts that do everything from 
printing PhonePak faxes to creating 
MPeg animations. In addilion, you can 
record your own ARexx macros from 
within ImageFX by telling the program 
lo record your keystrokes and mouse 
scurries, making macro building 
ridiculously easy. 

Whether painting or processing, voii 
can act on specific regions, brushes, or 
even the whole image at once. Like- 
wise, each paint-and-fill tool has a 
seemingly unlimited number of set- 
tings; paint modes can be dark or light, 
or done in relief, chalk, or crayon. You 
can also set that same painting tool for 
rubthrough, pantograph, or fade ef- 
fects — and leather the edges to bool. 

There are a few things that ImageFX 
could do better. When creating re- 
gions, it requires you to gel it right the 
first time. Imagemaslcr. on the other 
hand, lets you use the right mouse but- 
ton 10 move regions around the screen 
as you are creating them. I missed this 
feature, which lets you easily create 
precise masks. 

Batching 

Two batch processors complement the 
program. In addition lo the original 
Multi Processor, which required writ- 
ing your own execution scripts, there's 
now AutoFX. AutoFX is simple to use 
with a variety of prefabbed scripts, but it does lack 
power. Considering the wealth of effects available 
in ImageFX. it's disappointing thai there's no sim- 
ple way to create complex, multifaceted animations 
based on those tools. You'll have to be satisfied with 
AutoFX's library of stock effects — like rotating 
spheres and animated lightning — unless you plan 
10 pen the scripts yourself. 




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wolf out of image center to make room for the sphere. Lightning 
was added to the other wolf's image, spherized, and pasted as a 
brush with slightly feathered edges. 

Though the control panel (bottom) is your primary interface to 
ImageFX, the program has a host of requesters that offer easy 
access to the program's expansive toolbag. 



A variety of graphic operators (illustration on opposite page) 
complement ImageFX 2.0. 

Converting the User 

The 400-page ImageFX manual is thoroughly in- 
dexed and fully illustrated, although the black- 
and-white screenshots sometimes fail to make the 
intended point. What you will find really im- 
pressive are the 36 pages of practical advice. This 
chapter is not just a rehash of common-sense 
techniques and program features; on the contrary, i 



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it details tricks that vou can applv to 
real graphics projects. 

It's no! often that a program wins my 
heart ilie way ImageFX has. Willi an al- 
most magical combination of beauty and 
brawn, it"s both powerful and easy to 
control. ImageFX isn't perfect yet — but 
then again, ii hasn't had as many years 
to mature as the other guys. When yon 
consider the balance of features and ease 
of use, ImageFX 2.0 comes om as a clear 
winner. 

— Dave Johnson 



Two linear 

tape-editing 

software 

packages. 



Personal 
Editor 

Nucleus Electronics, SS45 

All Amigas. 
2.x/3.x compatible. 
Not copy protected. 
Hard-drive installable. 



V-Station 3300 
For Toaster 

Future Video. S129S 

System requirements: Two 
VTRs for Personal Editor; 
Video Toaster-equipped 
Amiga for V-Station 3000. 



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t fiHiU TSdH [SAIL Toke control of your busy schedule and petsonal information so you 
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V* Personal Information Manager Address Book and Contact Manager, To Do list, and FreeForm Notepad. 

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• Configurable reminders can 
launch ARexx sciipts 
£ • flexible appointment seorch 
? • Iconifies to a convenient 
monthly calendar 
Contact Management, 
Convenient Rolodex layout 
Extensive ARexx support 
Supports NAG & Address If! 




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Amiga Telecomm unications in ibe 90 's 

Termite is so easy to use even a novice 
telecommunicate! will feel ol home, yet it 
has ell of the pov/ei and high end features to 
satisfy the most seasoned modem warrior. 

• Designed fiom the ground up to take full advantage of Amiga WB 
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icons? No problem, just assign your own IFF brush to the button! I 

• Fully ARexx prog-cmmaUe • Automatic Script writer. Turn on script 
recording and nnve Termite write your ARexx scripts foi you! 

• Automatic Coll logging • Flexible Macros 

• Supports Amiga XPR libraries giving you a wide 
range of transfer protocols like Xmodem, Y modem, 
Zmodera, Kermit, CompuServe B+ 

• Supports Amiga KIM external emulations in 
odditioa lo the built in ANSI ond VT102 terminal 
emulations. Support for RIP XEM. 



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Professional Gome development is made easy with GameSmith! 

Over 3 years in development, the GDS gives you the low level 
power to create the masterpiece of your dreams. The package 
lias over 350 pages of documentation fully describing the system, 
utility functions, ond over 1 30 library functions complete with a 
detailed tutorial and many examples with source. 

• Complete animation system with double buffering • Custom 
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• Audio System makes sound playback easy! 

• Easy lo use Joystick polling routines • Very efficient 
ILBM picture loader • Optional custom encryption to 
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tape editing altogether (in favor of non- 
linear) or made it available only in sys- 
tems costing thousands of dollars, the 
Amiga offers fantastic editing bargains. 
Here are two edit controllers, Nucleus 
Electronics' Personal Editor and Future 
Video's V-Station 3300, that both 
promise a lot of bang for the buck. 

Personal Editor 

If you've produced 3-D animation on 
the .Amiga, chances are you've heard of 
Nucleus Electronics' Personal Single 
Frame Controller, which lets vour Ami- 
ga replace a dedicated single-frame 
controller for animation recording ar a 
fraction of the usual cost. As the lirsl 
product of its kind for the Amiga, ii 
made single-frame recording affordable 
for many animators. 

Now Nucleus slrikes again with its Per- 
sonal Editor, an edit controller that lists 
for an unbelievably low S645. The soft- 
ware uses the Amiga's serial port 
through the supplied cable ro control 
two RS-422 VTRs (a source and a record 
deck) with limecode capabilities. Besirles 
acting as an edit controller, the Person- 
al Editor offers all ol'the Personal Single 
Frame Conlioller's functions. Without 
needing an external GP1 connection, it 
supports a variety of display devices, 
such as GVP's IV24, Impulse's Fire- 
cracker 24, Digital Creations' DC IV, 
and even New Tek's Video Toaster. Con- 
necting die cables and installing the soft- 
ware takes about five minutes. 

The software communicates with the 
VTRs and reveals their model num- 
bers — a feature not found even oil ex- 
pensive edit controllers. From the main 
screen, you can control either your 
source or your record deck. Spoiled by 
very nice (and expensive) edit con- 
trollers equipped with jog/shutde con- 
trols, I was apprehensive about Person- 
id Editor's mouse-controlled software 
shuttle slider. Ikrt I was pleasantly sur- 
prised to find my decks operating with 
extreme precision. The Editor also 
uses the cursor keys to control the 
VTR mechanisms. Moreover, ii took 
advantage of the precise and smooth 
transport system on mv Mil decks — an 
important consideration, because a well- 



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designed edit controller that's easy on 
your equipment can save you a lot of 
money on VlK maintenance. 

From the main screen, you may per- 
form a simple edit or move lo other mod- 
ules. From the Edit List Manager, you 
log source tapes bv marking the Start and 
end of shots and adding any pertinent 
comments. After logging is complete 
(yon have up to nine lists), you move lo 
the Edit List and import any shots you 
wish to include. The assembly process 
lakes place automatically, with the edit 
controller prompting you to change 
lapeswhen necessary. You can export the 
Edit List to the industry-standard ('MX 
format for assembly on another edit 
suite, and you can also import CMX lists. 

The main screen also lets you access 
the Animation Sequence Editor, which 
you can use to record a series of frames 
to tape, one frame at a time. Another 
option is the Time Lapse Recorder, 
which lets you use the Amiga to record 
time-compressed sequences, such as a 
whole day happening on your screen in 
a few minutes. You can record these 
lime-clelaved frames directly toyouredil 
deck or lo disk. One further handy fea- 
ture is a SMFTE calculator with drop- 
frame ancl nondrop-frame operations. 

Taking into consideration all its line 
features and low cost, it's hard to see how 
you could do better lhan [he Personal Ed- 
ilor as long as you don't need an A/B roll- 
edit system. (Even if you're an unregis- 
tered user of its Personal SFC, give 
Nucleus a call. You may easily be able to 
upgrade to the Personal Editor.) 

V-Station 3300 For Toaster 

lfyourfo need A/B roll editing, the V-Sta- 
tion 3300 may be die system for you. It 
uses Future Video's Edill.ink hardware- 
based controller to control two source and 
a record VTR. Edit Link may be fully con- 
Sgured to work with professional decks, 
prosumer VTRs, and even camcorders 
not supported by the Personal Editor. 
The system I tested came configured for 
Mil broadcast VTRs and included all nec- 
essary cables. The suggested price varies 
from $ 1 y ( J 5 lo $1945 depending on con- 
figuration, lour disks for every option 
are available for free by request. 

The eclil software also controls the 
Toaster internally, but you must trig- 
ger transitions through an external (il'I 
connection (cable supplied). You musl 
configure the software manually to 
work with your particular decks, but 
once this is done, you can save the con- 
figuration and not have to worry about 
ii again. While VTR control is not as 
smooth as with ihe Personal Editor, it is 
perfectly acceptable, and the system 



handled the VTR transport mecha- 
nisms very well. 

The V-Staiion software lets you log 
your scenes and auto-assemble them 
from the edit list you create. While you 
cannot import or export lists, the V-Sta- 
tion includes nice features — such as Park 
and Perform — that allow you to edit with- 
out having lo worry about entering in 
and out points. It even lets you perform 
a GPI transition manually on the fly and 
enables vou to tag events automatically so 
that you can perform match-frame edits. 



Moreover, you can select from any Toast- 
er source and designate which source is 
going (o transition into another. 

The V-Station system includes plenty 
of editing options ordinarily found on 
high-end systems, and any experienced 
editor should be able to master it in just 
a few minutes. Conversely, inexperi- 
enced users should be able to handle 
more complex systems with very little 
trouble after learning to edit on the 
V-Station. Experienced pros might he 
Continued on p.38. 



the non-linear computer 



DraCo noun (dra-kdl 1: Amiga emulation on 
a 68060-based tower computer running Amiga 
OS. 2: An affordable machine for perfect 
quality (D1) digital editing with up to 2:1 com- 
pression ratios. 3: That which contains an on- 
board 32 bit bus for Retina, VLab Motion, and a 
RISC Processor. 4: Of or relating to immense 
animation power and rendering, yet very afford- 
able, with base systems available for under $5,000. 
5: An instrument of power and speed, running 
most Amiga hardware and software, available this 
summer, 6: Another in the long line of astounding 
MacroSystem products. 

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ith the possible exception ofhard drives, there isn't an area of per- 
sonal computing in which selection has increased so rapidly, and 
prices fallen so sharply, as in personal color printers. Where the 
Hewlett-Packard 500C had the field to itself just a little over two 
years ago (at a list price of nearly SI 000), the market now sports a 
slew of excellent printers in the S500-S600 street-price range. 

In our previous roundup of color printers (see May '94, p. 28), 
we looked at the HP DeskJet 550C, the Star Micronics SJ-1-44, the 
Canon BJC-600, and the Fargo Primera. This time around, we 
inspect Fargo's newest offering, the Primera Pro, with 600x300- 
dpi (dots per inch) dye-sublimation and wax-transfer printing, and 
Epson's Color Stylus, which features 720x720-dpi output. 

The winner of our previous showdown, the Canon BJC-fiOO, 
may have its work cut out defending its crown against these two 
contenders. (To contact the manufacturers of the printers mentioned 



When we did 

our Siskel, & Ebert 

on color printers last year, 

we found the stars of 

'94 were a pretty 

distinguished lot. 

But Fargo and Epson 

fiave introduced 

some "New Faces of '95" 

that are looking like 

definite Oscar 

material. 



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IN THE EARLY days of personal computing (that's 10 
to 15 years ago), Epson was the name in printers. No 
one else came close in Features and pricing on tractor- 
fed dot-matrix printers. But recent years haven't been 
as good to Epson. For one thing, it stayed at the dot- 
matrix dance too long. But the company is back — in a 
big way — with the new Color Stylus (S699), And we 
mean big, literally. 

Compared to the small footprint of the Canon BJC- 
600 (13.7 inches wide by 6.3 inches deep), the Epson is 
huge, measuring a hefty 18'/aX20'/: inches (including 

front paper-tray 
extension) 




Epson 
Color Stylus 



and weighing 16,3 lbs. (the Canon is less than 10 lbs). 
This is not a small printer. 

The heart of the Epson Color Stylus is its Multilayer 
Actuator I lead (MACH) print bead. Unlike the Canon, 
which uses beat to force the ink bom its print head, the 
Epson mechanically forces ink from its 48 color-ink and 
60 black-ink nozzles, 'litis eliminates the need for print- 
head replacement, as is required nn the Canon. Unfor- 
tunately, Epson elected to use a tri-color cartridge — 
much like lite 1 II' color printers — along with a separate 
black cartridge. I bis means thai when one color runs oul, 
all three get pitched — a feature that can significantly 
raise your cost per print Canon uses four individual 
color cartridges, a much liiendlier and efficient scheme. 

A word here about resolution: The Epson features 
true 720x720-dpi resolution. True is the operative 
word since some manufacturers — notably HP — feature 
software-enhanced resolutions, or dot-addressability 
schemes, which are useless to Amiga users. While the 
newer HP 560 mav claim (500x300 resolution, its usable 
resolution is still only 3(10x300. 

Pretty — Bur Nor Perfect 

The Epson Color Stylus in 720x720 mode puts out 
superb, near-photographic quality prints. But the 
machine does have a lew warts. First, 720-dpi mode is 
very slow, With four times lite image information to 
process, the printouts take nearly four times as long as 
a 360-dpi prim. For example, a one-third page 720-dpi 
color print of the girl with the red hat (see "Printer Test 
Comparisons" sidebar on p. 16) took 1 hour and 23 
minutes on an nonaccelerated Amiga 1200. That trans- 
lates to nearly -Vh hours for a full page print! Your 
driver and CPU Speed will greatly affect those limes. 

Occasionally, we also ran into banding problems 
with the Epson, bin not in a consistent manner. A 
cross-check on a PC-compatible platform, with Epson's 
own driver, revealed no such banding. Printer gum 
W'oll Faust, who developed lite Studio driver we used 
For testing the Epson, commented that the problem 



COLOR PRINTERS 41 k OUNCE 

Please note that prices given are manufacturer's suggested retail prices; almost all of these models have lower street prices— some 
several hundred dollars less. (For detailed descriptions and comparisons of the BJC-600, Primera, DeskJet 5S0C, and SJ-144, see 
"Show Your Colors," May "94, p. 28,) 



Manufacturer 


Model 


Price 


Print Method 


Resolution 


Canon 


BJC-600 


S579 


inkjet 


360x360 


Canon 


BJC-600e 


S549 


inkjet 


360x360 


Epson 


Color Stylus 


S699 


inkjet 


720x720 


Fargo 


Primera 


S9951 


wax transfer 
or dye sub 


203x203 


Fargo 


Primera Pro 


S1895 


wax transfer 
or dye sub 


600x300 


Hewlett-Packard 


DeskJet 550C* 


S719 


inkjet 


300x300 


Hewlett-Packard 


DeskJet 560CM 


S599 


inkjet 


600x300 


Star Micronics 


SJ-T44 


$399 


dye transfer 


360x360 



"This model is no longer available from manufacturer. 

+The dye-sub model of [he original Primera lists for S1245. 

tt Although HP claims 600x300 resolution for its DeskJet 560C (via software enhancement), the usable resolution for Amiga users 

remains at 300x300 dpi. 



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seemed to appear more often on slower Amigas — such 
as the A1200 — where the prim head had to wait long 
periods for each batch of information. 

To get good results in 720 mode, the Epson requires 
its own coaled paper (and m recommends special paper 
for 360 dpi, as well). The good news is that Epson's 
paper is reasonable — coming in at about 13 cents per 
sheet — compared to III''s special papers. 

Colors on die Epson tended to he warmer and some- 
what richer, but not as vibrant as those of die Canon. 
But at 720 dpi the line color shadings and detail from 
the 24-bit images we used were trulv outstanding. 

In the final analysis, the Epson Color Stvlus is an 
excellent piece of work, turning out color prints that 
are very dose to photographic in quality. The negatives 
of die unil include iis large size, very slow printing in 
720-dpi mode, occasional banding, the need for spe- 
cial coated paper, and ils single tri-color cartridge. Bui 
if you want superb text output at a reasonable price 
and are willing to put up with those admittedly minor 
disadvantages (o achieve near-photographic quality 
output, then look no further.The Epson Color Stylus 
is the machine to have. 



f runera f-^iv 



SO WHAT'S THE difference between the Fargo 
Primera we looked at in May '94 and Fargo's new 
Fargo Primera Pro (S I SO."))"- Physically, not a thing. In 
terms of output, however, it's a whole new enchilada. 

The original Primera handled both wax-transfer and 
dye-sublimation printing with a maximum resolution 
of 203X20:? dpi. While that sounds low compared lo 
inkjets or lasers, there are distinct benefits to the dye- 
sublimation process (in which solid dyes are converted 
into a gaseous slate and then absorbed by the paper 
rather than being applied to the papers surface). The 
dithering in l his process is so subtle that even at a 
rated 203 dpi, the images appears nearly identical lo 
a 1200x1 200-dpi laser prim — in oilier words, almost 
continuous-tone photographic quality. 

In our original review we found the quality of the 
output nothing short of amazing, particularly when we 
considered thai die Primera's price was nearly $8000 
less than its closes! rival! But, as with the Epson, quality 
was achieved at ihecosl of'.speed. Fargo accomplished 
its breakthrough in primer technology by eliminating 
the on-board RISC processors common in high-end 
color and laser printers. All image processing was done 
inside ihe Amiga — and that took awhile. It still does 
even with the Primera Pro. 

'Fhe difference, however, is that now the output — 
lipped to 600x300 — is not simply "almost" photo- 
graphic in quality . . . Primera Pro prims cannot be 
differentiated from continuous-tone, professional 
color-lab V prims! Working with 16- and 24-bii photo 
images in the Pritnera's dye-suh mode, we achieved 
output that was astonishing in iis clarity — lacking a in- 
discernible dithering and possessing a high degree of 
subtlety in the shading. 

A Few Important Caveats 

Fhe dye-sublimation ribbon, however, is three-color 
(CYM), and, as with the old HP 500C, this can lead to 
some problems when il comes to reproducing true, 
rich blacks. Compounding this problem is Fargo's 




(tea si » ii 
not to license 
additional drivers 
from outside authors 
such as Wolf Faust. 

With Faust's Studio DS driver, or those included with 
software such as Art Department Professional, Amiga 
users ol ihe original Primera had a very full set of con- 
trols for color correction, gamma, contrast, brightness, 
and so on. While adequate to the task, the factory-sup- 
plied driver for the Primera Pro oilers little in the way 
of control beyond lightening or darkening the final 
print. There is a hidden set of controls within the driver, 
bill absolutely no instructions on their use We opted 
therefore to use Primera's default sellings, and the 
slightly greenish tones you will notice in ihe lest panel 
(see the "Printer Test Comparisons" sidebar) reflect 
both the absence of such correction and ihe type of 
blacks yon can expect with a three-color process. 

On the oilier hand, we noted in our original review 
thai the Primera's major weak spot was its handling ol 
text. Because of the printing process used and the rel- 
atively low resolution, type had a jaggy, rough appear- 
ance — making the Primera quite unsuitable for critical 
text work. Readers will note from the test panel that this 
is no longer a problem. Fhe type sizes represented 
there (H-, 10-, 12-, 60-, and 84-poim) arc all well formed 
and the equal of any inkjei and even most laser primers. 
Unfortunately, type output from the three-color dye- 
sub ribbon does exhibit a very noticeable greenish tint, 
just as with ihe photographs. A black-only dye-suh 
ribbon, however, is available lor text-only work. 

Although this review has focused primarily on the 
Primera's dye-sublimation mode, it should be noted 
that the printer performed equally well using the wax- 
transfer method. Colors were bright, well-saturated, 
and very close to the Epson in overall quality. But, 
again, lack of suitable controls limited our abililv to 
iweak and fine-tune the images. Also, those using 
swiichbox setups will be happv to learn that Fargo 
apparently has corrected the original machine's ten- 
dency to balk at such arrangements. A swiichbox with 
two eight-fool cables worked fine with the Primera Pro. 

Mixed Reviews 

We find ourselves with very mixed feeling about the 
Primera Pro. On the one hand, by lipping the resolu- 
tion Fargo has improved an already superb dve-subli- 
tnaiion imaging process and solved the machine's 
single problem area — type rendering. Vet, by 
excluding drivers from ihird-parn Amiga developers 



Primera Pro 



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in favor of its own plain-vanilla offering, Fargo has 
negated the very imaging capabilities that serious 
graphics professionals require. Since we can see from 
the user's manual that such graphics controls are pre- 
sent in the Macintosh version of the driver (although 
not in the Windows version), we'd have to suggest that 
serious users willing lo pay the S1400 street tab wait 



unlil either Fargo produces a driver worthy of the price 
and the machine, or once again licenses Amiga devel- 
opers who can. ■ 

Gary Ludwick is chief jiriiii master at the Creative Depart- 
men!, an advertising agency in Charlotte, NC. Write to him 
f/o AmigalVorld, 80 Elm St.. Peterborough, NH 03458. 



PRINTER TE5T COMPARISONS 



IN TESTING BOTH the Color Stylus and die Primcra Pro, 
we used a nonaccelerated A 1200 with 6MB of RAM, and a 
swilchhox arrangement io .VB the printers to the computer. 

Drivers 

With the Epson printer we used the Studio II Epson Color 
Stylus Driver (SO-9), authored by Wolf FaUSt, which is avail- 
able from most mail-order sources, or directly from the dis- 
tributor. Noahji's. This new driver package features a Color 
Matching Svstem (monitor-to-print), which greatlv simpli- 
fies achieving excellent color prints on the first try. 

We also checked out the Epson Color Stylus driver from 
Endicor Technologies ($44.95). This driver works like a stan- 
dard Workbench driver but ulili/cs the special features oft lie 
Epson. It does not work with monochrome Stylus printers. 

Media 

All tests were conducted on the special papers recom- 
mended and supplied by the manufacturers. Both the 
Epson and Fargo can also handle transparency material. In 
addition, the Fpson will print envelopes, and the Fargo has 
special materials for printing heat-transfers for Tee-shirt 
appliques. ■ — GL 




Fargo Primera Pro - Wax Trans. 600 x 300 



MSRI>:S1895 
Driver: Kargo i.i 
Wax refill kit: S45.00780 



Cost per«a\ transfer pace 5 .56 
Rated printing time: 1.5 MPP 

Test panel print time: 13:25 



I'arjto Electronics. 7 901 (-'Mug Cloud Dr.Edcn Prairie, Mn. 
1-800-327-4622 




Epson Color Stylus - 720 dpi 



MSRP :S699 
Driver: Studio II 
Color Cartridge: S35 
Black Cartridge: SI 7 



720 paper cost: S25/200 sh. 
Color page coiti Si.28 (100%) 
Rated printing lime: Not avail 
Test Panel print time: 13:20 



Epson America.Bo* 2842.Torrance ,CA 90509 (310)782-0770 



Fargo Pri intra Pro - dim \ 3IK) 



MSRP :S1895 < "■■< pel dye-sub page: >3.<iii 

Driver: Fargo 1-1 Rated pimtiiiiitiiiie: '>-\2 Mi'i 

Dye-sub refill Kit: S90/25 Pesl Panel prini lime: 41:15 

I iiim Kli'iirunii-v. "'Jill lluni: t IiiiiiI Dr., ICdtii Prairie. Mn 

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The output of Fargo's Primera Pro looks even better than its 600x300 dpi, both in the wax-transfer version (upper right) and, es- 
pecially, the dye-sub model (lower right). The Epson Color Stylus (lower left) delivers near-photographic results at 720x720 dpi. 



1 6 April 1995 



What could be more exciting than creating your own planet? 

That's exactly what 3-D 



II IF. WIIGA WAS ;i true pioneer in the area oi 3-D 
landscape generation on personal computers. Almost 
as soon as researchers had figured out the algorithms 
for generating 3-D landscapes, public-domain software 
showed up that allowed the Amiga to create iheni. 
Commercial software followed shortly thereafter, and 
the Amiga has set the pace ever since. Only recently 
have other platforms begun to catch up. 

The Real, the Unreal, and the Surreal 

Landscape-generation programs can create very realistic- 
images of actual locations by leading and interpreting 
Digital Elevation Model (DEM) files, which are devel- 
oped from data gathered hy the United States Geolog- 
ical Survey. (For more information on DF.Ms, see the 
sidebar on p. 20.) Once you have loaded the DEM data 
into your landscape program, you can then modify the 
parameters that determine how your finished rendering 
will look. You can change lighting, point of view, insert 
tree lines and snow lines, and more. Some programs 
even let you edit the landscape data, so that you can 
flatten the top of Mt. Baldy or cut a gorge the si/.e of the 
Grand Canyon into the Iowa plains. 

If you'd like to generate landscapes that have nothing 
at all to do with reality, these programs will do that, too. 
Von can make your own hy hand with the appropriate 
editor, or you can let your program do the hard work 
fbryou. You can generate random fractal landscapes hv 
taking a triangle, dividing it into three subtriangles, and 
pushing the center point up or down. This process is 
then repeated on the subtriangles for a set number of 
iterations. Depending on how may triangles you use 
and how far you push them up or down, you can end 
up with a subtly rolling landscape or mountains higher 
than the Himalayas. 

These so-called "random" landscapes are not really 
random; they are usually generated from a seed 
number you supply. If you type in the same seed 
number, you get the same landscape. However, with 
millions of potential seed numbers, you've got millions 
of potential landscapes available to explore. 

It's also possible to take an IFF image and translate 
it into a 3-D landscape. The color of each point on the 
x-v plane of the picture is interpreted as a different 



landscape-generation 
programs 
let you 
do. 




height, and that is plotted as a 3-D landscape. Of course, 
you can end tip with some very strange landscapes this 
way — for example, a mountain that's based on a digi- 
tized image of your face. (Stand aside, Mt. Rushmore!) 

Apply Yourself 

All this may sound like fun, but what is it good for? One 
answer is, "What's wrong with having a little fun?" But 
there are real-world uses for these programs, too. 

If you're into computer graphics and animation (yon 
do own an Amiga, don't you?), then you can use these 
programs to generate realistic scenes for your illustra- 
tions or movies. If you're a digital artist, for example, 
you can generate an image of your local landscape, 
then finish it off by adding buildings and toads in their 
actual locations', or you can create a totally new land- 
scape of your own. 

If you're an animator, you could try this trick: Gen- 
erate a scene of a flat plain, then generate successive 
frames, increasing the heights of mountains rising 
out the plain. Flayed hack, this sequence is like the 
dramatic mountain-building scene from "Rite of 
Spring" in Disney's Fantasia. Even more spectacular 
is a high-speed "fly-by" of a mountain or a deep 
gorge, complete with barrel-rolls! You can even pick 
a high, straight-down viewpoint and step sideways 
from frame to frame, simulating the view from the 



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window of your own Space Shuttle mission. 

If you're a photographer, you can generate images 
of a real-world mountainscape from different vantage 
points and under different lighting conditions to find 
an interesting view before you hike 20,000 feet up a 
mountain, only to find that the view would have been 
even more spectacular from the next peak over. Sci- 
entists and environmentalists can stitch the topography 
of the earth from many angles and under a variety of 
conditions, supplementing field work from the comfort 
of their computer terminals. 

In other words, as with all Amiga creativity software, 
the usefulness of landscape-generation software is lim- 
ited only by your imagination. 

Rolling Your Own Landscapes 

Creating a fractal landscape with any landscape-gen- 
eration program is a step-by-step process, with many 
variables to consider and lots of potential pitfalls along 
the way. But if you start out small and work your way 
up to more complex projects, reading the manual as 
you go, the process is relative!)' painless. 

The lirst step in the process involves creating or 
loading some form of terrain map. "This can involve 
loading a DEM file, creating a DEM file of your own 
using a terrain-map editor, generating a "random" 
landscape, or translating an IFF image. 

Once a terrain map is created or loaded, you can 
make a multitude of adjustments to it. Fractal detail 
can be added or taken away: You can usually select a 
small section of the terrain map and zoom in on it, or 
place a border to limit the area rendered. Scaling lets 
you adjust the amount of rise or drop, effectively 
turning mountains into molehills or vice-versa. 

After you have adjusted your terrain to your liking, 
you can add any of a multitude of details. You can usu- 



ally set a tree line and snow line to determine the alti- 
tudes at which trees stop glowing or snow first appears. 
Additional controls may let you adjust a "fudge factor" 
lo determine how far above and below these lines trees 
and snow will wander. You can set sea level, and watch 
the land recede into the depths; river and hike options 
let you fill in low spots to create lakes, or start rivers 
(lowing downhill, following the contours of the ter- 
rain. Some landscape generators allow you lo place a 
variety of individual trees, buildings, or other objects 
into your image. And you can add clouds lo the sky, 
or even call up a night sky full of stars. 

Once all the details are in place, you'll want to set 
the values that determine how you'll actually see the 
landscape. First, you pick your camera position. Next, 
you set a point al which your camera is aimed. You 
might want to preview how your scene will look in a 
preview window. After the shot is set up, you can adjust 
lighting by moving the sun. Some programs even let 
you adjust ha/.e settings that determine how much 
objects blur as they recede. Finally, you can define 
camera settings, from lens type lo field and depth of 
view. You can even tilt the camera! 

Once you have set everything to your liking, you can 
select the type of image you want to render. Screen size. 
color depth, and overscan are all user-selectable. Some 
programs even support third-part)' graphics boards. 

At this point, you can choose the degree of detail ren- 
dered, which also affects rendering speed. You'll want to 
render test images with less detail and at lower resolutions 
to save time, then set them higher for a final rendering — 
which may take all night, depending on your system. 

If you want movement, you can create animations. 
Some programs let you define movement paths, and 
will generate animations automatically. I lowever, you 
may have to use an additional program, or even save 



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bllowing are all available on Fish disks. You can also look for them online on 


Amine!, conimerci 


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services, or an Amiga BBS near you. 


PROGRAM 


FISH # DESCRIPTION 


Cloud 


216 


Generates and displays fractal clouds 


CloudsAl ■ A 


981 


Improved fractal cloud generator with AC .A support 


FracGen 


188 


Generates fractal ferns, trees, and more 


Genesis 


501 


I'D demo of the now-defunct 3-D landscape program from llollyware 


IFSgen 


554 


Generates pictures of ferns, trees, galaxies, etc. 


Landscape 


554 


A fractal scenery generator written in AMOS 


MandelMountains 


383 


Renders mountain-like 3-D Mandelbrot images 


MapTrix 


853 


Texture-map generator; includes mountains and clouds 


Plasma 


779 


A plasma cloud generator for AGA machines 


Scenery 


155 


PD precursor to Scene Generator 


SceneGenDemo 


299 


Demo of Scene Generator, the precursor to Scenery Animator 


SculptTools 


430 


Create objects for Sculpt 4D, including mountains 


Terrain3D 


94 


Earl)' Amiga PD 3-D fractal scene generator 


TreeGrow 


814 


Generates cjuasi fractal trees or plants 
In the background: A lightened version of ACA clouds, generated by CloudsAGA. 



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GENERATION 



individual frames that you can then assemble with the 
help of DeluxePainl or an Amiga animation program. 

Amiga Landscape-Generation Programs 

Now that you know what's involved in generating your 
own 3-D landscape images, here's a quick rundown of 
the landscape-generation packages available for the 
Amiga. Currently, you can gel three excellent com- 
mercial programs: Scenery Animator ($99.95, Nat- 
ural Graphics). VistaPro ($99.95, Virtual Reality 
Labs), and World Construction Set ($250, Questar 
Productions). (To locate the vendors of these programs, see 
the "Manufacturers '/Distributors' Addresses" list on /;. 58.) 
A fourth. Hollyware's Genesis, is no longer being sold, 
though it lives on in a freely distributable demo ver- 
sion. There are also many I'D and shareware programs 
available (see the sidebar on p. 18). 

Scenery .Animator (reviewed in the Dec '93 issue of 
AmigaWorld, p. 21) made its debut years ago as a PD 
program called "Scenery" on Fish Disk #155. It 
evolved into Scene Generator, then became Scenery 



Animator. It is the easiest to use of the three Amiga 
landscape generators, with an intuitive, button-based 
interlace and an integral 3-D preview screen. You can 
"drive" around the preview screen using on-screen 
arrow bullous, and can swap over to a map screen for 
the whole "lop-down" view. Scenery Animator also has 
excellent built-in animation features. Though it is pow- 
erful enough for serious users, its ease of use definitely 
makes it the best landscape-generation program for 
the casual user, artist, or animator. 

VistaPro 3.1 (reviewed in the Jul. '93 issue of 
AmigaWorld, p. 20), gives you an incredible amount of 
conLrol over a generated image. The main screen pre- 
sents you with an almost overwhelming array of but- 
tons and options, and clicking on almost any button 
brings up even more billions: fortunately, the user- 
friendly manual can lead you through the whole 
process with little difficulty. Though it might be some- 
what daunting for the weekend dabbler, VistaPro is an 
excellent choice for the graphics professional. There 
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and (right) a portion of 
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also need TerraForm 2.0 (S25), a 2-D/3-D terrain 
editor that lets you create your own VistaPro maps. Ii 
you want to create animations, you'll also want 
MakePath ($25), which creates animation paths. Both 
are available from Virtual Reality Labs. 

World Construction Set (reviewed in the Jan. '95 
issue ofAmigaWartd, p. 42) is the newest of the three 
Amiga landscape generators. Aimed at a slightly dif- 
ferent market, its forte is creating high-view DEM 
maps that look like photos taken from space, hallows 
you an incredible amount of control over esoterics like 
ecosystem definition. However, it doesn't generate 
"random" fractals at all (though that is promised for a 
future version). It is also a complex program to use, 
with a plethora of buttons, windows, and screens to 
wade through before yon can generate an image. The 
manual is in what I would call a "state of transition," 
and rendering times are long. Still, its images art- 
impressive, and it is constantly being improved. 

Although it doesn't publish a landscape generator of 



its own, MegageM makes two support programs. One 
of these, Fractal Pro (SI49.95; reviewed in AW, Oct. 
'9:5), can compute [en different fractal equations 
(including the Mandelbrot set) and save the results as 
DEM liles, which you can then load into VistaPro or 
SceneiT Animator to create 3-D scenes based on fractal 
data. The other. Scapemaker 3.0 ($49.95), converts 
IFF images into VistaPro format DEM hies. It can also 
logically combine landscapes, enabling you, for 
example, to seamlessly merge Mt. Fuji into a pastoral 
Iowa farm scene. Scapemaker features dual on-screen 
DEM displays and ARexx support. 

Now that you know more about what is possible in 
landscape-generation on the Amiga, you can use these 
programs to create rich images of real locations — or to 
fulfill your visions of imaginary worlds. ■ 

Mark R. Brown authored AWs article on fractal imagery in 
the Feb. '95 issue. Write to him do AmigaWorld. Editorial 
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contiguous United States, Hawaii, and most of Alaska. 
(The USGS also distributes 7.5-minute, 1 5-minute, and 
30-minute DEMs.) The basic elevation model is pro- 
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format. One-degree DEMs are also referred to as "3- 
arc second" or "l:250,O0O-scale" DEM data. 

lite majority of the 1 -degree DEMs are produced 
from cartographic and photographic sources. The 
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processed into the required form and spacing. 

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accuracy of the data. 

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the director)' /pub/data/dem. This directory contains 
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States. The files have been compressed with the GNU 
"gap" utility, which is available for the Amiga from any 
Aminet site on die Internet. 

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Check out these expert tips — plus sample 

project — designed to get MorphPlus users 

morphing and warping like the pros. 



If you have mas- 
tered some of 
the basics of a 
nun phing pro- 
gram such as 
MorphPlus, but can't 
seem to achieve the 
kind of results you see 
on TV, maybe you 
need to hone your 
techniques a little 
before moving on to 
the next stage. While 
this article is not a tutorial, it will outline some basic 
guidelines that vou can use to make good-looking 
morphs. The examples provided here refer to 
MorphPlus (Elastic Reality), but you can apply 
many of the concepts presented to other morphing 
packages, such as Imagemaster (Black Bell Systems) 
and ImageFX (Nova Design). 



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and edges), but it's a 
good idea to keep 
your users' guide 
hanciv for reference. 
(For a complete re- 
view of MorphPlus, see 
May '93, p. 83. Also, 
consult reviews of 
other morphing pack- 
ages, including Imagemaster R/t, Jan. '94, p. 14; 
ImageFX, May '93, p. 19; and ImageFX 2.0 in this 
issue, p. 8.) 

First Things First 

The first thing vou need to decide is what kind of mor- 
phing effects you want to perform. These can range 



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in creating a morph with MorphPlus. Vectors must be 
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From a simple cross dissolve to a complex morph where 
dillercni ureas of the image change shape and texture. 
Your next step is to choose your source material. In 
some cases, you may Unci that the effect yon want to 
perform is just not feasible with the source material von 
have. Generally, it is better to decide upon die elfect 
to perform and obtain source material to match. The 
example used here is a classic lace morph. in which we 
morph the face of a woman into ihe face of a man. 
While ibis does not really show some of the fancier 
cllccis vou can achieve, ii will illustrate him to obtain 
a smooth-looking, believable morph. Keep in mind 
that the morphing program cannot create data that 
does not exist: it can only transform the material you 
provide ii with. 

Once yon have suitable source material, you can 
now go about the task of defining the morph. In our 
MorphPlus example, you accomplish ibis by placing 
vectors around key features on the subjects' faces. 
Figure 1 illustrates bow the vectors are defined. Basi- 
cally, vou must place vectors on corresponding fea- 
tures in both the source and destination images. In 
this case, notice how the overall shapes of the heads are 
outlined, as well as the nose, eyes, and other more spe- 
cific character lines on the subjects' faces. Keep in mind 
that the most effective morpbs are achieved when the 
source and destination images are very similar. In fact, 
in many productions thai vou see on television, the 
creators have gone to great lengths to assure that their 
morphing materials were similar. 

Once the main features are outlined, you can per- 
form a lest render to see what you have so far. By doing 
this, you can see what areas still need work and what 
areas you can leave alone. One nick thai Hollywood 
professionals often employ is to use relatively low-res- 
olution versions of their images so they can spend more 
time working on the morph and less time rendering. 
This is critical when it deadline is near and you have to 
render images at film resolutions thai can be upwards 
of 40()0x400() pixels. It becomes <|iiite clear thai it is 
better (and faster) to use images thai are much smaller 
(say, 64(1x480) for the design and testing stages of your 
morph. As long as your smaller images have the same 
aspect ratio as your larger ones. MorphPlus will scale 
vour vectors to match your larger images when the 
time comes to do the final render. 

The Morpher's Edge 

When placing your vectors and defining edges, it is 
very important to remember a few key things. First, 
think of the entire workspace as an elastic sheet of 
rubber. When yon pull on one portion of it, the effect 
is not limited to that area, but will affect the entire 
sheet (just as in real life). If you are not careful, you 
could get unwanted stretch marks in the morph. 

These can be avoided, however, through the use of a 
strategically placed set of points connected by an edge. 
Points act as nails or lacks placed in ihe sheet of mbbcr 
to prevent the effect from spreading to other regions of 
the morph. 'Hie edge extended between the points acts 
like a bunch of little points in between the main points. 
Edges are a very important factor in making a good- 
looking morph, as an edge acts like many little vectors 
or points between the main vectors or points. Basically, 
edges save you from having to draw literally thousands 
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place the vectors in a few key locations and connect 
them all the way around with edges. 

In Figure 2, notice how edges are used to define the 
outer regions of the face and the key areas of the morph, 
such as the nose, eyes, and mouth. It is important to 
keep die outer edges (particularly the ones outlining the 
head) as close as possible to the subject's feamres. A 
tearing effect may occur, for instance, if a portion of the 
subject's hair falls outside the edge or if a piece of the 
background is included inside the edge. You may have 
to add more vectors to eliminate this problem. 

A Group Approach 

Also, when placing vectors and points, remember to 
place them on corresponding features on the source 
image as well as on the destination image. You may 
find it easier to view your vectors as source only, place 
them, and then switch your view (and vectors) to the 
destination image, where you place them accordingly 
on corresponding features. In addition, you will prob- 
ably find it easier if you deal with your morph on a fea- 
ture-bv-feature basis — concentrating on a particular 
spot (such as the eyes). When you've finished with each 
individual area, hide that group of vectors and begin 
work on the next feature (say, the ears). 

Grouping is a convenient way to handle large num- 
bers of vectors and points. Grouping your vectors allows 
you to hide or show them as a batch. In addition, 
grouping allows you to take advantage of MorphPlus's 



group-motion and transparency controls. By grouping 
vour vectors, you can save them as separate files to use 
in other projects or to simplify the current one. If you 
save your vector groups to tlisk, you can avoid having 
to place an entire new set of vectors if you want to use 
the old ones (somewhat like a pattern) in other projects. 
Figure 8 demonstrates how MorphPlus's Group editor 
can group different sets of vectors. 

Now It's Your Turn 

These tips should give beginning morphers some guide- 
lines for creating effective morphs on their own. For 
those who would like to try the project for themselves. 
you can download the images shown here. These can be 
obtained from Elastic Reality's vendor library on 
CompuServe (GO AMIGAV) in the file AWMorphJha, 
or from the company's vendor area on Portal (GO 
ELASTIC). Tire images can also be found in the Amiga 
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Chris F.dgin has been a technical-support representative in 
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literally thousands of people make good morphs. lie was also 
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The intro to our new series shows you that "code fragments" are the basic 

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the time it takes to boil a well-done egg. 




Part 1 



Five Minute ARexx 



DON'T START YOUR timer just yet— exploration. Bui how? There's a lot of talk, bin little 

a little preliminary groundwork is nee- by way of practical example. And why ARexx, anyway? 

essary First. Everyone probably knows Because .ARexx is a programming language for the 

something about ARexx, has at least Amiga, an expanded version oFREXX, the "Restruc- 

heard that software with an .ARexx port lured Extended Executor" language coined at IBM. It 

is desirable, and that ARexx is wort hy of is often labeled a scripting, macro, or even "inter- 

BY EDWARD ). CORK 



ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN S. DYKES 



AmigaWorld 25 



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process-communication" language; such terms just 

skin the edges, describing subsets ofARexx's capabil- 
ities, ll is all nl' those things, and mure. It is a full- 
fledged, extendable language, and — as delivered- — it is 
an "inteq>reled" language. This simply means thai 
ARexx programs are retained in their humanly read- 
able Form, with each line read and translated intocom- 
puterese every time the program is run. Such transla- 
tion takes lime, of course, making lor slower operation 
in comparison with "compiled," or machine-language, 
programs. As this is true of all interpreted languages, 
don't let it bother you: just he aware of il. 

ARexx, then, is a tool — a powerful one. It is sym- 
bolized by die REXX: device, which von may have 
noticed in listings of system assignments. If you know- 
that ARexx is already running on your machine, that's 
great; the first step is (lone. If you're nol sure, use the 
"Quick Tip" below to find out. 

Handling the Tool 

As with any tool, the proper use of ARexx requires 
thought and planning. What do you want to build using 
vour ARexx hammer? Here are some possibilities: 

• Nail an opening file requester to a program thai 
docsn'l provide one, so lhal yon can easily search for 
and select a work file. 

• Before starting a desktop-publishing program, reas- 
sign FONTS: to a different location so you access a spe- 
cialized set of fonts more quickly: then, when the pro- 
gram ends, set FONTS: back to its original location. 

• Enhance ARexx -compatible commercial software 
bv adding commands and functions of your own 
invention. Prime candidates are TurboText, Art 



Quick Tip: 



15 REXX THERE? 



IF YOU DONT know whether ARexx is up and running on your 
system, open a Shell or CI. I window, type 

assign REXX: exists 

and hit die Return key. You should get the response 

REXX System2.1:Rexxc 

or something similar- If you get a " . . . not assigned" message, 
try typing SYS:SYSTEM/REXXM.-YST, press the Return key, and 
try the "assign ..." command again. If you still don't get the 
above response, then ARcxx isn't available and it's time to 
contact an Amiga-knowledgeable friend, local users' group, or 
bulletin-board system (BUS) for help. 



Department Pro, Image-master R/t, and even the Video 
Toaster software. 

• Launch that "Shell-only" program by simply double- 
clicking an icon — you know, the program that required 
you to first open a Shell window, make an obscure 
assignment, type in a deeply nested file path, and then 
type cryptic command-option codes before finally hit- 
ting Return. 

And on and on; these are just what came quickly to 
mind. I know they're possible because they, plus a lot 
more, have already been done. Bui what about 
exploring ARexx? How can you get your head around 
ibis language? One way is to start with the seven-line 
"heart" of a program — a code fragment. 

You write ARexx programs using a text editor or a 
word processor. It must be capable of saving straight 
ascii text (maybe labeled "texl only") and must create 
a Project icon upon saving a file. Commercial products 
(TurboText or ProWrite, for example) or public- 
domain editors (e.g.. DMK on fish disk ">30) will serve 
very well. 

I will assume you know bow to manipulate Work- 
bench windows and how to open a Shell (or CI. I) 
window. You should also have ARexx version 1. 15 
(daled Nov. '90) or later properly installed and up and 
running on your machine. Your ARexx documentation 
gives its version; if you're running AmigaDOS 
later, you're all right. 

Ready? Start up your lexi editor or wort 
processor. Start your five-minute timer. Type 
the following, and don't worrv about indenting 
and blank lines. Such formatting helps make 
it easier to read, bin leading spaces and 
blank lines are ignored bv ARexx. 

/* OneLiner.codefrag.rexx */ 
greeting = "READY=>" 

options prompt greeting 

do forever 

parse pull line 

interpret line 
end 
Save it as 

rexx: OneLiner.codefrag.rexx 

Remember to save it only as ascii text, 
so no hidden word-processor codes get 
added to il. Bring Workbench to the 

front, open a shell, type 

rx rexx:OneLiner.codetrag.rexx 

and hit the Return key. (In subsequent 
instructions, [RETURN] means press the 






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Return key.) You should see a new "READY=>" prompt 
appear in the Shell window, with the cursor wailing right 
behind it. Von do?Then you are now a programmer I Or 

at least you've taken that First tinv step to becoming one. 

Now type in X = 1 2<S [RETURN]. Then type SAY X 
[RETURN], "128" should appear on a line by itself 
between [lie last prompt and the one you're at now. If 
it does, you're doing fine; if it doesn't and you get no 
error message, end the program by typing EXIT. 
[RETURN], and you should be back to your normal 
shell prompt If you do get an error message, you've 
already been dumped back to your original shell. Go 
back into your editor and recheckyour typing. Use any 
error message as a clue to what might be wrong. The 
first line, the /* . . . */ stuff, must be there; check 
spelling, quotation-mark pairs, and so on. This one 
should be easy to debug (famous last words!). 

This little program creates a fully interactive envi- 
ronment, allowing real-time experiments with ARexx 
instructions and functions. It accepts one line of 
input, up to 255 characters, then performs ARexx's 
magic on ii when you press RETURN. "Interactive" 
means thai the program keeps Ruining, remembering 
all variables created and any adjustments you've made — 
unless you make an error or type EXIT. Enter ARexx 
instructions, assign values and strings to variables, 
manipulate them to your heart's content, and then per- 
haps use the SAY instruction to examine the results. 

Probing Deeper 

Let's open the door a litde wider. At OneLiner.code- 
frag's prompt, type SAY ADDRESSQ [RETURN]. The 




reply tells you what ARexx port is currently being talked 
to; it should be "REXX." Type ADDRESS COMMAND 
[RETURN |, then type SAY ADDRESSfJ [RETURN] 
again. 'The reply, "COMMAND," says that you can 
now talk directly to AmigaDOS. Try typing LIST 
[RETURN]. Your current disk directory should go 
scrolling by. When that finishes, type just ADDRESS 
(no parentheses this time) [RETURN]. Type SAY 
ADDRESSQ again to see where you are now. Back at 
"REXX," right? You've just discovered that ARexx 
starts with a default port, REXX, and if you change 
that a Few I imes with the Address instruction, you can use 
the Address function (the one with the parentheses) to 
tell you which is current. 

You get the idea. Pick other ARexx expressions and 
explore them in i he same manner. When vou're ready 
to quit, type EXIT [RETURN]. 

Now for some interesting fun! We'll adjust One- 
I.iner.codefrag's icon for launch with a simple double- 
click of the mouse. At Workbench, open the RAM 
disk and Unci the document icon for OneLiner.code- 
frag.rexx. Click the icon — just once this time. Select 
Info . . , or Information . . . from Workbench's Icons 
menu to open the icon-information window. Go to the 
Default Tool text box. delete whatever is there, type RX 
in its place, and then click on Save. Back at Work- 
bench, the RAM disk should still be open and the 
Onel.tner.codefrag.rexx icon should look the same. 
Double-click the icon. You should again see the 
interactive window, with the now-familiar 
"READY=>" prompt. You do? Then you are now an 
applications programmer] Or at least you're on the way. 

A few notes on usage ofOneLiners: First, instruction 
groups like DO . . . END, or IT . . . THEN will work, 
but they must also fit the one-line limitation. Use semi- 
colons to separate tfie pieces; for example, try: 

SAY "Hello, AmigaWorld!" ; END 

Yon should be able to guess what will happen. 
Second, to experiment with any of the func- 
tions in the Rexx Support Library (such as 
DELAY, SI IOWDIR, SHOWLIST, etc.), insert a 
line in the OneLiner.codefrag.rexx program 
immediately above the "greeting = . . . " line: 

call addlibf'rexxsupport. library", 0,-30, 01 

I If there are other libraries' functions you 

I want to p 1 ay with, such as rexxarplib 

R and rexxmathlib, initialize them in the same 

way. Add additional "call ..." lines to the 

base program, replacing "rexxsup- 

pon.libraiV with the appropriate name. 

Then restart the program. 

Third, OneLiner.codefrag.rexx is a 
bare-bones program. It has no error-trap- 
ping or problem-reporting features. Ifyou 
make an entry' or programming error, the 
program will exit. Upon restarting it, you'll 
lave to reinitialize all needed variables. 
Experiment and learn, and next time we'll 
explore further ARexx program elements. ■ 

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A conl inning series 
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and tricks for 

creating more 



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By Joel Hagen 



Digital 
Scrapbooks 



WHEN YOI TRAVEL, do you bring 
back little souvenirs of the journey that 
were too interesting to throw away, yet 
later just wind up occupying drawer 
spact'!-' I'm thinking of things like ticket 
stubs, sugar packets, maps, menus, 
corks, pebbles, and other odds and 
ends. If so, this month's column ex- 
plores the idea of incorporating such 
memorabilia into a digital scrapbook 
using vour Amiga with a scanner or 
video digitizer. This can be a fun post- 
travel project, and you can effectively 
apply the techniques to professional 
illustration. 

As Time Goes By 

On any trip, save all the little things 
that catch your interest. Bring them 
back to your Amiga and arrange them 
on a scanner or under a digitizing 
camera. Capture and save images of 
these compositions, and they become 
digital scrapbooks of vour travels that 
you can share with friends as easily as 
snapshots. This seemingly simple idea 
has more potential than might at lirst 
meet the eye. 

You need not limit vour scanner 
arrangements to flat items. Small 
three-dimensional objects such as pins, 
stones, arrowheads, shells, fishing 
lures, or any other intriguing debris 
can be scanned fairly effectively. Ordi- 
narily, you save a pebble or a wine cork 
because it has associations lor you at 
that moment with certain other things 
or experiences. Months later, out of 
context, the cork is often just a cork, 
the pebble just a pebble. It can be 
especially difficult to convey the origi- 
nal associations to others who did not 
share the experience with you. The 
creation of a digital scrapbook gives 
you the opportunity to preserve associ- 
ations as well as images of objects. The 
wine cork, perhaps a memento ol a 
special celebration, could be arranged 
on a scanner along with a menu from 
the cafe where the celebration took 
place. Add to this composition a page 
lorn from a calendar, an autumn leaf 
pocketed that day, or anything else 



that seems appropriate, and the image 
preserves an entire experience. 

Digital journals also can be great 
family projects. After an outing, let the 
kids put together a digital scrapbook of 
the day's experiences. I lave them save 
leaves, pebbles, bones, maps, and 
sketches. As they create the scrapbook, 
they can add text and labels if that 
seems desirable. In working on such a 
project, you should protect the glass 
heel of the scanner with a sheet of clear 
acetate before littering it with rocks 
and foliage. Before scanning, you can 
lay a piece of heavy fabric over every- 
thing as an opaque background. You 
may be surprised at how well three- 
dimensional objects scan. You will 
probablv get some colored ghosts or 
auras around the edges of objects that 
are raised from the scanner surface, 
but these color artifacts are interesting 
and can be accepted as part of the look 
of the technique. 

II you are using a video camera and 
frame-capture board to input images 
into vour Amiga, you have even more 
freedom to incorporate li-D objects 
into your scrapbook. You may find it 
niost effective to aim the camera 
straight down at a framed region of a 
table within which von make all vour 
arrangements. Thai frame is the area 
the computer will capture. If you work 
within those boundaries, you will not 
need to take time to adjust your physi- 
cal setup for each image. If vou are 
using a scanner, you can usually create 
a bounding box in the preview window 
that is the size of a full-screen Amiga 
image at whatever pixel resolution you 
like. From then on. that box can be 
positioned on any scanner preview to 
capture a screen-size image for your 
scrapbook. 

Easy Does It 

Freedom from fussing with equipment 
is one of the most important aspects of 



32 April 1995 



A little imagination and a few basic scanning/digitizing techniques can turn a collection 
of mementos or other odds and ends into an interesting digital composition. 



the digilal-scrapbook idea. These 
arrangements should be East and fun. 
You see immediately in the computer 
image il ihe composition is what you 
want If it is not, yon simply rearrange 
I lie elements and try again. This is a 
playful way to encapsulate a trip, to 
refresh your memories, to retrace a 
journey. The arrangements should 
follow your whims, and the mechanics 
of capturing the images should be free 
of bother. II this kind of project be- 
comes a major undertaking, you will 
probably never try it more than once. 
On the other hand, if you keep the 
mechanics simple, you may begin 
making digital journals as casually as 
you take snapshots. 

Your digital journals are not intend- 
ed lo replace snapshots. They are a 
way to make ttse of a different medium 
lo communicate in a different way. You 
will find as vim do more and more 
digital assemblages that you develop a 
visual vocabulary quite different from 
your style of photography. In fact, vou 
may find 1 1 lis a wav to salvage a photo 
thai holds an important mcmoiT lor 
vou, but is otherwise unremarkable. In 
a digital scrapbook, it becomes a new 
compositional element and takes on 
new life. It can rellect new meaning by 
the way in which you associate it with 
other linages or objects. 

The photo oftheVostok rocket in 
the accompanying illustration was an 
underexposed and basically uninterest- 
ing snapshot. It has greater interest, 
however, in this digilal-scrapbook page 
by its association with other memora- 
bilia from a trip I look to Russia. I 
used ImageFX 2 (Nova Design) to 
brighten the photo within the overall 
scanned image. Cycling the Region 
Selector to Poly made it easy to outline 
the photograph with a few mouse 
clicks. In the Kill Requester, I set Edge 
to Feather In with a Radius of 3. This 
allowed soft-edged color correction 
within a limited region by using the 
Balance controls. I also raised Gamma 
until the image of the rocket bright- 










ened and showed better detail. You 
can use similar techniques to reduce 
color ghosts at the edges of scanned 
objects. ImageFX 2 has a nice color- 
scan preview with excellent controls 
and effects options thai make it a per- 
fect scanner interface for projects like 
this. Its painting and photo-manipula- 
tion tools give you everything you need 
for touch-up. 

Your digital scrapbook can be as 
simple as a series of pictures viewed 
with a directory utility like Diskmaster 
or Directory Opus. At a more complex 
level, vou might use authoring software 
to control the display of the images in 
the scrapbook. This gives vou the op- 
portunity to add sound clips, transi- 
tions, and other effects. My choice is to 
keep it simple. Anything that adds to 
the effort of keeping a digital scrap- 



book takes away from its spontaneity' 
and reduces the odds that you will stick 
with it and find a style within the form. 
There are many professional opportu- 
nities for artists who have developed a 
fresh look in digital illustration, espe- 
cially in the emerging multimedia 
industry, ■ 

Joel Hagen's credits include work in art. 
astronomy, science fiction, mid software 
development. Write to him at 10512 
Sawyer, Oakdale, QA 95361. Please 
include a stamped, self-addressed envelope 
if you wish a reply. 



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Cobra 

DKB, S159.95 
A1200 

2.x/3.x compatible. 
Minimum system: A1200. 
Recommended system: Same ; 
minimum. 



Accelerator and RAM expander 
for the A1 200. 



For the A I 21)0 owner who feels the 
need for speed, but also wants to 
practice a little fiscal responsibility, DKB 
may have come up with just the right 
answer: the Cobra accelerator board. Its 
performance isn't breathtaking, but for 
the A 12(H) owner still plodding along at 
14 MHz with 2MB of slow chip RAM, 
the Cobra comes as a revelation. 

Open Wide and Install 

The Cobra is designed for the AlSOO's 
bonom-side expansion slot, and the man- 
ual says you'll have it installed in a minute 
or less. Not likely. The Cobra is a snug fit 
and requires more than a little jiggling 
just to get the computer's male card and 
the board's female connector lined tip. 
Then you have to figure out how to push 
the board onto the male connector with 
no Singer space at the far end of the Co- 
bra card. There are two small holes into 
which you can get a very small screw- 
driver to use as a leverage device, but 
DKB does not recommend doing this. 
Rather, they advise that a push on the 
150-pin connector should help. 

The Cobra comes widi a 68030 chip (the 
full version with MMU) running at 28 
MHz. ll also includes a socket for an op- 
tional math coprocessor anil a single SIMM 
socket for RAM expansion that's designed 
to accommodate the 72-pin SIMMs avail- 
able at any computer store in sizes of 1, 2, 
4, 8, and 16 megabytes. (If you can afford 
them, 32, 64, and 128 megabytes are also 
supported) 1 used a 1x32 SIMM, which 
translates into 4MB ol'tast RAM. Promised 
by DKB, but not available at die time of this 
review, is an optional SCSI adapter that 
mounts to the Cobra. 

Double Your Fun 

Once the board is in, the lid closed clown 
agaiti, and the power on, the perfor- 



mance-standard testing program, AIBB, 
reveals that the Cobra provides integer 
performance 1.97 times faster than a 
stock A1200 with 4MB of last RAM and 
2.6 times faster than a stock 2MB ma- 
chine. My test unit didn't come with the 
optional Floating Point Unit, but if you 
use software that supports a 68881 or 
68882 math chip (3-D rendering, 
CAD/CAM, and some 24-bit graphics 
programs), you can expect an improve- 
ment of 8 to 10 times in floating-math 
calculation speed! 

Along with the board, DKB supplies a 
software program that moves Kicksiart 
into fast RAM if you've installed a SIMM 
chip on the Cobra. Although DKB 
claims that this further increases per- 
formance, AIBB revealed little, if any, 
improvement. 

DKB has enjoyed a fine reputation for 
turning out solid hardware at reasonable 
prices, and the Cobra accelerator is no 
exception. With a street price of around 
$160, its ability to at least double the 
working speed of most A1200s, its in- 
dustry-standard SIMM RAM-expansion 
capability, and the promised SCSI- 
adapler add-on, the Cobra deserves a 
very high rating indeed. 

For speed demons on a tight budget, 
I recommend the Cobra highly. And for 
those with a few more bucks to spare, 
stay tuned for some new, faster A 1 200 
accelerators from DKB. 

— Gary Ludwick 



WORDWORTH 3.1 

Soft-Logik, $225 

All Amigas. 

2.x/3.x compatible. 

Hard-drive installable. 

Not copy protected. 

Minimum system: 1MB, WB 2.0. 

or later, hard drive. 
Recommended system: Accelerator, 

4MB, PostScript printer. 



Option-laden word-processing 
software. 



When Soft-Logik recently started dis- 
tributing Digita International's 
Wordworth 3. 1 (WW3. 1 ) word processor, 
there was cause for celebration. Along 
with Softwood's Final Writer 3, it's one of 
the only two major commercial word 
processors that remain available for the 
Amiga market. 

Designed in the UK and sold (here 
for years, Wordworth is a full-featured, 
professional word processor that many 
Amiga users on these shores have 



longed to enjov. With so many recent 
Amiga products exhibiting an air of 
hasty programming and packaging, it's 
refreshing to receive a serious package 
with a high-quality, bound 340-page in- 
struction book and separate Print Man- 
ager booklet. 

In Place and Running 

Tocrcate this review widi any otherword 
processor would be blasphemous. 1 
therefore wrote this review with Word- 
worth 3.1 installed on both an A4000 
using OS3.1 and an A2000 operating 
under OS2. 1 . 

The four disks comprising the pack- 
age use the standard Amiga Installer 
program, making installation a rela- 
tively speedy process. The Installer 
places numerous items on your hard 
disk, including the program, a the- 
saurus, a spelling checker, AmigaGuide 




Examples of text and graphics In Word- 
worth 3.1. 

Help files, additional disks ofTrueType 
fonts, and a welcome assortment of such 
programs as memory and disk-drive 
utilities. 

Once everything is in place, you can 
configure WWS.l, including PostScript 
printer options. In either AGA or stan- 
dard Amiga configuration, the pro- 
gram provides an attractive but busy 
interface that's a tad intimidating due 
to its many buttons. A series of config- 
urable buttons appears on the left side 
of the screen, making menu selection 
just a mouse click away. 

Some of the functions and "roll- 
over" menus appear entirely different 
under OS3.1 than under 2.1, which is 
evidence of hooks that take advantage 
of AGA operating systems. You can tai- 
lor the interface to include as many or 
as few buttons as desired. 

By default, WW3.1 operates under its 
own custom screen, but you can configure 
it to run on the Workbench on both AGA 
and standard Amigas. Wordworth proved i 



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a fast performer on both the A4000 and 
A2000. 

Long-time Amiga users will quickly 
notice that WW5. 1 "s Hie requesters are of 
[lie ASL variety, with similar speed and 
functionality, but display some slight dif- 
ferences in appearance. Many kevboard 
equivalents complement the menu sys- 
tem, using the universally accepted Ami- 
ga-x, Amiga-c, and Amiga-v sequences 
for, respectively, Cut, Copy, and Paste 
functions. The Save .As function uses the 
Amiga-a sequence. 

Wordworth offers a unique Aniiga- 
Guide-based help system. Calling up the 
Help menu at the top of the screen or 
clicking on the question-mark button at 
the left activates AmigaGuide. The pri- 
mary menu option called "How Do I 
. . . ?" displays an AmigaGuide docu- 
ment providing an exhaustive interac- 
tive list of details on how to perform 
everything from adjusting page margins 
to using document templates. 

The program's graphics capabilities 
are first rate, arguably belter than those 
found in some DTP programs. WW3.1 
lets vou impori TII-T. GIF, IFF, and sev- 
eral other graphics formats. To place an 



image within your document, you simply 
use the mouse to position it, and then 
press the mouse button. Eight included 
pieces of clip art install along with the 
the program, and you can also easily 
import your own. 

The Printed Word 

Well-designed touches include Post- 
Script and non-PostScript printing op- 
lions worthy of any word processor on 
any platform. Kerning and tracking ad- 
justments let you give your text a pro- 
fessional layout. There's also a variety of 
diawing tools at your disposal for creat- 
ing lines, boxes, ellipses, and freehand 
designs. 

The Save As option allows for six dif- 
ferent text formats, including Word- 
Perfect and plain ascii text. I found the 
latter option somewhat disappointing, 
as it converts the soft returns created by 
WWS.l into hard returns. There is an 
option for either hard or soft returns 
when saving ascii files, but it creates 
two spaces wherever soft returns occur 
in the original document. Regardless 
of the option used to save ascii files, 
vou should plan to spend time per- 



forming an extra step or three if you 
use WW3. 1 as a text editor for your ter- 
minal program. 

Curious Conventions 

The included thesaurus, like the spelling 
checker, is fast and accurate, hut lilted 
with British, rather than American, word 
usage. Adding new words, however, re- 
quires just a click of the mouse. While it 
does a commendable job of rapidly list- 
ing synonyms — using either the mouse 
or hotkeys — the process seems incom- 
plete in that it does not olTer even brief 
definitions. 

Also, some colorful artifacts mysteri- 
ously appeared around buttons when 
running WW3.1 on the A4000/040 us- 
ing AmigaDOS 3.1; however, they 
seemed to have no effect on the opera- 
tion of the program. 'I'he A4000 did lock 
up on occasion, hut I attributed that to 
importing colorful graphics with Magic- 
Menu running in the background. 

Conclusion 

Wordworth's broad array of options, its 
wonderful, highly configurable interface, 

Continued on j>.-!4. 



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$144. 95 

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A12DX1 (Specify) 89.95 

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Joysticks 

Suncom TAC 3 $12.95 

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CBM CD-32 Controller 29.95 
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ThEBug IB CD 

SliKStik B.95 

PortRel 18.00 

Gravis Game Pad 25.95 

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C8M 3000 Mouse 24.95 

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$67.95 



Commodore A2410 
24-Bit Graphics Card 

Works with Emplanl, Amiga Unix, 

ArtDept. Pro 2.5 & TV Paint Pro 

2.0. Includes: Install, Demos & 

PD 3 Disk Set. Limited Supply 

$139.95 



Hard Drives 

We carry a lull tins ol 2.5" and 

3.5" Hard Drives from Conner, 

Quantum, Seagate, Micropolis, 

and Maxtor. Call lor pricing. 



Commodore 

Monitor & CPU 
Buyout 

We nave made a large purchase ol 
NEW and Refurbished Computers 
and Monitors from Commodore. All 
carry a 90 Day Warranty. 
Refurbished products are rehabed by 
a third parly company and are In 
Like New condition with ALL 
appropriate cables and manuals. 
Hurry as supplies are limited. 



1084. -Refurbished 


$199.95 


10B4S - Refurbished 


229.95 


1942 -Refurbished 


299.95 


1950 -Refurbished 


299.95 


1950 -NEW 


349.95 


1960 -Refurbished 


339.95 


1960 -HEW 


369.95 


A600w/40MbHD-Refurb. 


329.95 


A1200- Refurbished 


449.95 


A200D- Refurbished 


399.00 


A3000 16Mz/2Mb 




52Mb HD- NEW 


649.95 


A4000 030/25Mz/2Mb 




IZOMbHD-Refurb 


1749.00 



Motherboards 



NEW & complete with chips. Limited 
Supply. 90 Diy Wirnnry 

A3000 Tower Motherboard $549.00 

A3OO0 Dauohterboard 59 65 

A500Rev5PCB 109 95 

A3640 25Mz 040 Accelerator 399.95 

A600PCB 139.95 

A4000 Daughterboard 69.95 



Books 




A1200 The Next Siep 


$26.00 


A1200 Insiders Guide 


26.00 


Mastering Amiga OOS 3 Tutorial 


31.00 


Mastering Amiga OOS 3 Reference 


31.00 


Mastering Amiga OOS Beginners 


27.00 


Mastering Amiga AMOS 


29.00 


Mastering Amiga C 


27.00 


Mastering Amiga Printers 


27.00 


Mastering Amiga ARexx 


31.00 


Maste ring Amiga System 


31.00 


Mastering Amiga Assembler 


29.00 


Amiga Assembler Insider 


26.00 


Amiga Gamers Guide 


26.00 


Amiga Workbench A-Z 


27.00 


Ultimate AMDS Book 


35.00 


ROM Kernel, 4 Book Set 


74.95 



RAM CHIP SPECIAL 

While supplies last we are 

offering 1x4 static column 

zips. These chips are perfect 

for the A3000 line and many 

peripheral boards. 



1x8 SIMM Module 
1x32 SIMM Module 
4x32 SIMM Module 
256KX4 DRAM 
68882 33Mz FPU 



$44.00 
165.00 
589.00 
5.00 
49.95 
Mr RAM, CPU 
...lips 



I nio 610-586-5701 

Tech 610-586-5704 

FAX 610-586-5706 

Hours, - Mon-Fri 9 to 6 

Sat 10 to 4- Eastern 



Orders 

800-932-6442 



Software Hut 



CD-R0M/CDTV/CD-32 SALE 



Disks will work w/CDTV. CD-32.A-S70 and any Amiga moil! mm i CD-ROM drive snd 
appropriate driver software. Purchase 4, or more, i receive FREE SHIPPING. 



17 Bit 2 CD Collection 535.00 

17 Sii Cominunion CD 25.00 

17 Bit Phase 4 25.00 

17 Bit LSD Combo Deluxe 25.00 

17 Bit LSD Phase 2 25.00 

69 XXX 24.00 

A Long Hard Day on the Ranch 9.00 

A Bun tor Barney 8.00 

Advanced Military Systems 10.00 

All Dogs Go to Heaven 9.00 
American Heritage III. Dictionary 12.00 

AmfNelGold4 21.00 

AmiNelShare4 19.00 

AmiNetVol. 5 19.00 

AMOS PD Library 29.00 

Assassins Games 28.00 

Audio Plus 18.00 

Bankok Beauties XXX 24.00 

Bible & Religion 24.00 

Barney Bear Goes to School 8.00 

BCInel 18,00 

Born to Love XXX 21.00 

Case of the Caullos Condot 9.00 

CD Caddy 6.00 

CD PD 1 8.00 

CDPD2 24.00 

C0PD3 54.00 

CDPD4 24.00 

Cheeky Chics XXX 21.00 
Cinderella: The Original Fairy Tale 9.00 

City Builder 114.95 

Classic Board Games 10.00 

Clip Art & Fonts 14.00 

Cllpart Warehouse 1B.00 

Climax XXX 21.00 

Club 69 XXX 21.00 

Cookbook Heaven 2 1 9.00 

Curse otRa-CDTV ONLY 9.00 

DataMix 25.00 

Demo CD 1 24.00 

Demo CO 2 24.00 

Dirty Nurses XXX 22.00 

Electric Lust XXX 22.00 

Eruption XXX 21.00 

EuroScene 19.00 

Exotic Extasy XXX 21.00 

Extreme Gail XXX 21.00 

Eyes ol the Eagle 9.00 

fractal Pro Imape Library 42.00 

Fresh Fish 24.00 

Fresh Fonts Vol. 2 24.00 
Fun School 3 - Ages 5 and under 10.00 

Gallery ot Dreams 19.00 

Games & Goodies 24.00 

Garden Fax: Fruits. Vegs. Herbs 9.00 

Garden Plants 9.00 

Indoor Plants 9.00 
Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Conifers 9 00 

Gardening Handbook 18.00 

GIF Galaxy 26.00 

GIF Gallery Vol. 1 27.00 

GIFs Galore 1B.0O 

Gold Fish Vol. 1 24.00 

Gold Fish Vol. 2 24.00 

Graphics Plus 18.00 

Gutenberg Protect 19.00 

Hot Lovers XXX 22.00 

Hound ol the Baskervilles 8.00 
Hutchinson Encyclop'a - PAL ONLY 13.00 

Illustrated Holy Bible 15.00 
Illustrated Works ot Shakespeare 1 4.00 



Internet's Avalon CD-BOM 44.95 

Light ROM Vol. 1 36,00 

Light ROM Vol. 2 36,00 

Logical • COTV ONLY 8.00 

Luscious Lips XXX 21.00 

Meeting Pearls Vol. 1 18.00 

Meeting Pearls Vol. 2 18.00 

Mega Media 2 18-00 

Micro RID Volume 1 25.00 

Micro R&DVolume2 40.00 

Micro R&D Volumes 1900 

Micro R&D Volume 4 17.00 

Mind Run - CDTV ONLY 7.00 
Moving Gives Me a Stomach Ache 9.00 

Moving Textures 100 224.95 

Mud Puddles 10.00 

Multimedia Mega Bundle 24.00 

Music MODS & Sound Samples 18.00 

My Paint 11.00 

Naked Dragon XXX 22.00 

Naughty Pussies XXX 22.00 

Network CD by Weird Science 25.00 

Network Cable CD32 to Amiga 30.00 
New Basics Electronic Cookbook 15.00 

Our Solar System 16.00 

Paper Bag Princess 10.00 

Party Time XXX 24.00 

Pink Sheets XXX 21.00 

Pixel Playmate XXX 22.00 

Plain Brown Wrapper XXX 18.00 

Pleasure Island xxx 21.00 

Pom Asylum XXX 22.00 

Power Pinball 14.00 

Psycho Killer 9.00 

Pussy Galore XXX 21.00 

Raffles 9.00 

Red Hot XXX 21.00 

Sexual Fantasies 18.00 

SFX Volume l 29.00 

Sheer Delight 16.00 
Snoopy: Case ot Missing Blanket 1 2.00 

Sounds Terrilic 26.00 

Space 4 Asironomy 21.00 

Steamy Window XXX 22.00 

Strip Poker 14.00 

Super Fonts 19.00 

Syndesis 3D ROM Vt B9.00 

Syndesis 3D ROM V2 89 00 

Texture Gallery Vol. 1 42.00 

Texture Heaven 25.00 

Texture Heaven 2 48.95 

Thai's What I Call Games l 2500 

Thai's What I Call Games 2 25.00 

Thomas' Snowsuit 6.00 

Tie Break Tennis 11.00 

Tight Squeeze XXX 21.00 
Time Table ot History: 1991 Editions 

Business. Politics i Media 15.00 

Science & Innovations 15.00 

Top Heavy XXX 24.00 

Town ot Tunes 18.00 

Town With No Name 9.00 

Turbo Catc 2 96.95 

Visions 24.95 

Visual FX 129.00 

Wet Dreams XXX 24,00 

Wide Open 21,00 

Women In Motion 12 00 

World ot Clipart 19.00 

Wortd of GIF 22.00 

Wrath ot the Demon 10.DO 



Authorized Amiga Manuals 



A2232/2060'2065 Service Manual S19.95 

A1950 Service Manual 22.95 

A2002 Service Manual 1 9.95 

A20254 Service Manual 19.95 

A500 Rev 5/Ea/7 Service Manual 24.95 

A2000 Rev 4 Service Manual 29.95 

A2000 Rev 6 SBrvice Manual 29.95 

A3000 Service Manual 34.95 

A3000T Service Manual 39.95 

A1270orA1300Serv. Man. (Specify 14.95 

A2060 Service Manual 14,95 

A2091 User Manual 10.95 

A600 or A200D User Man. (Specify) 14.95 

A1200orA300O User Man. (Specify) 16.95 



A400O User Manual 

1 084S-D ot P User Manual (Specify) 

A2 002 User Manual 

1060 User Manual 

Amiga Basic Manual 

A2630 or A2086 User Man. (Specify) 

A22BG User Manual 

A2386SX User Manual 

A600KD User Manual 

A500 User Manual 

A1Q00 Schematics A Exp Info 

Prog's Guide to ARexx w/disks 

OS 1.3 Enhancer Manual w/disks 

Hard Drive User's Guide 



19.95 
6.95 
8.95 
8.95 
1295 
7.95 
7.95 
10.55 
9.95 
8.95 
22.95 
14.95 
12.95 
7.95 



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At Low Prices 


These titles will also work with AGA 


Amigas equipped will} a CD-RDM reader. 


ASIM CDFS 30,1 AmigsDOS 3. 1 


Insight: Techno logy 


515,95 


Oelender ot the Crown 2 


S17.95 


Grolierx Encyclopedia ? 


534.95 


Guineti Seek ol World Records 


$19.95 


Buy ALL Four el the Above CDs 


S79.95 


Alien Breed/Owak Combo 


S29.00 


Brutal Sports Football 


23.03 


Bubba & Stix/Premiere 


32.D3 


Bubble & Squeak 


39.03 


Bump & Bum 


38.03 


Cannon Fodder 


36.03 


Chaos Engine 


16.95 


Chuck Hock 1+2 Combo 


31.03 


Deep Core 


12.00 


Diggers 


17.00 


Dragon Stone 


42.00 


Emerald Mines 


21.00 


Frontier Elite 2 


34.00 


Global Elfect 


19.00 


Guardian 


38.00 


Gunship2000 


35.00 


James Pond 2 


19.00 


James Pond 3 


22.00 


Jungle Strike 


30.00 


Labyrinth ol Time 


35.00 


Last Ninja 3 


19.00 


Liberation 


2500 


Lit I Devil 


40.00 


Microcosm 


34.95 


Morph 


20.00 


Myth 


22.00 


PGA Euro Tour 


37X0 


Photo CD Manager 


34.95 


Project X/F1 7 Ccmbo 


22.00 


Rise of the Robots 


41 .00 


Simon the Sorcerer 


37 00 


Sleepwalker/Pinball Fantasies 


19.95 


Soccer Kid 


37.00 


Super Stardust 


38.00 


UFO Enemy Unknown 


38.00 


Zool 


19.95 


2ool2 


22.95 


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Productivity - Utilities 

Address H1 1.5 S26.S5 

Ami Back 2 49.95 

Ami Back Tools 49,95 

AMOS Pro 45.00 

AMOS Pro Compiler 39.00 

Anim Workshop 2.0 84.95 

Art Department Pro 2 69.95 

Art Department Pro 2.5 149.00 

Art Dept. Pro Conversion Pack 46.95 

Batch Factory 42,00 

Briltiinco 2.0 69.00 

Caligari24 139.00 

Checks & Balances 33.00 

Composite Studio 1.1 89.95 

Cross DOS V5 54,95 

Cross MAC 99.00 

Data Store 104,95 

Deluxe Paint 4 v4. 5 79,95 

Deluxe Paint 5 139.95 

Desktop Magic 2B.95 

Desktop Magic Sound/Art Pack 14.95 

Directory Opus 5 68.00 

DirWork2 69,95 

DiskSalvlO 34,95 

Distant Suns 5,0 59.95 

Dynamic Motion Module Call 
Epson Scanner Driver Pack- A5DG 99.00 

Epson Stylus Color Driver 34.95 

Final Copy 2 Ret 2 59.95 

Final Data, 59.00 

Final Writer Rei. 3 115.00 

Forge/Essence Volume 1 69 95 

Forge/Essence Volume 2 89.95 

GameSmith Development System 99.95 



Software Blowout 


Originally $40. 00 or more. Hurry as quantities are limited. 




Addams Famity 


S5.95 


Oh No More Lemmings Add-On 


7.9! 


Agony 


12,95 


Operation Wolf 


5.9! 


Alpha Waves 


6.95 


Ork 


9.9! 


Amazing Spiderman 


4,95 


Overkill -AGA only 


6.9! 


Arthur 


6.95 


Pete Keyboard Familiarization 


5.9! 


Battle Squadron 


5.95 


Pixelscripl 


12.9E 


Big Business 


4.95 


Poco Man 


12.95 


Blade Warrior 


5,95 


Powers tyx 


3.9! 


Bob's Bad Day 


6.95 


Predator 2 


9.9! 


Carthage 


9.95 


Prime Mover 


9.9! 


Chuck Rock 


6.95 


Pushover 


5.9! 


City Oafense 


5.95 


Quadralien 


4.9! 


Clever & Smart 


3.95 


Rambo 3 


4,9! 


Ciown-o-Mania 


4.95 


The Reaper Copier 


9.9! 


Colorado 


4.95 


Renegade 


3.9! 


Combat Air Patrol 


14.95 


Rings of Medusa 


3.9! 


Combat Classics 1 (3 Games) 


12.00 


Shadow ot the Beast 3 


9.9! 


Cosmo Ranger 


4.95 


Shanghau'Rampage Combo 


11.95 


Cougar Force 


4.95 


Sim City Classic 


24.9! 


Covert Action 


4.95 


Sink or Swim 


3.9E 


Crealure 


6.95 


Skyblaster 


3.9! 


Crossword Construction Set 


16,95 


Spell-a-fari 


16.95 


Dino Wars 


4.95 


Spellbound 


7.9! 


Discovery Collection 


8.95 


Starter Collection 


9.9! 


Double Dragon 2 


5.95 


Strider 2 


6.9E 


Eliminator 


5.95 


Strikes n Spares Pro NEW 


29.9! 


Espana Games 


4.95 


Super Graphics Collection 


24.95 


E-Z Grade 


12,95 


Table Tennis Simulation 


4.95 


F15 Strike Eagle 2 


4.95 


Talking Storybook: Whales 


16,95 


Flames of Freedom 


4.95 


Nursery Rhymes 


16,95 


Garfield: Winter's Tai! 


7.95 


3 Sears 


16,95 


Gift Collection 


12.95 


Red Hen 


16,95 


Globdule 


9.95 


Targhan 


5,95 


Gold Disk Professional Collection 


39.95 


Teenage Mulant Ninja Turtles 


5.95 


Greens 3D Golf 


4.95 


Tetris 


5,95 


Gunshool 


3,95 


The World Tour (Specify Country) 


16.95 


HAM-E Workshop 


14.95 


Theme Park Mystery 


6.95 


Heroes ot the Lance 


3.95 


Tie Break Tennis 


6.95 


Hill Street Blues 


3.95 


Tiger Road 


8.95 


Hook 


5.95 


Title Page 


19.95 


Impossamole 


5.95 


TV Sports Football 


12,95 


Inlersound 


9.95 


TV Text Original 


4,95 


Introducing Maps 


7.95 


Universal Military Simulator 


14,95 


Joe Blade 


3.95 


Vampire's Empire 


3.95 


John Lowg's Ultimate Darts 


7.95 


VIndex 


4.95 


Killing Cloud 


6.95 


War in the Gull 


7.95 


Last Ninja 3 


8,95 


Warlock 


7.95 


Leander 


12 35 


Wild Wheels 


6.9S 


Lemmings 1 *2 Combo PAL 


29.95 


Wolf Child 


7.9! 


1 Magellan 


19.95 


Woll Pack 


14.9! 


Math Doctor 


16.95 


World Trophy Soccer 


4.9! 


Moduia 2 Dev. System 


24,95 


Zing! 


6.9! 


Mortal Kombat 


19.95 


Zing! Spell 


6.9! 


Oh No More Lemmings PAL 


14.95 


Zoo! - AGA only 


6.9! 



Gigamem 79.95 

Home Front 34.95 

Homes 69.00 

Humanoid (Specify LW or Imagine) 1 59.00 

HypercachePro2.0 48.95 

Image F/X 2.0 249.95 

Imagemaster R/T 69.95 

Imagine 3.0 33900 

Interior Construction 69.00 

Intenor design (Specify 1. 2. or 3| 38.00 

Invoice I1 1.2 34.95 

Jurassic Collection 85 00 

Link II! 49.95 

Magic Lantern v2 74.00 

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 2 34 .00 

MaxD0S2.5 85.00 

MaxiPlan 4 45.00 

Morph Plus 124.95 
Motion Master LW (Specify vl or v2| 114.95 



Sports Objects tor LW 

Studio Printer 2 

SuperHPDJC3 

Super HP-LJ4 

Surface Pro 

Swipes 

Tape Worm FS 

Termite 

Top Form 

Twist Relational Oatabase 

Virtual Reality Studio 2 

Vista Pro 3.05 

Wave Link 

Wave Maker 2.0 

Word Worth 3.1 

Wodd Construction Set 



Multilayer for AdPro 


79.95 


Multilayer for Image F/X 


79.95 


Music Collection 


49.00 


OntheBallvl.5 


35.00 


PageS!reara3.0 


249,00 


Pegger 2.0 


59.95 


PC-Task V3.0 


134.95 


Pixel 3D Pro 2.0 


169.95 


Piug-lns and Go! LW 


69.95 


Power Macros/Lightwave 


99,95 


Pretium 


45.00 


Rollem 


41.95 


SAS/C 6,51 


159.95 


Scenery Animator 4.0 


65.00 


Snap Maps: Building Materials 


124.95 


Snap Maps: Fields & Foliage 


124.95 


Sparks New Version 


119.95 



Adult Photo CD* 


American Girls 


S29.0 


Biker Babes 


29.0 


Cat 4 Mouse 


26.0 


Dirty Duo XXX Bundle 


23.0 


Elite Euro Models 1 (v1 orv2) 


23.0 


Elite USA Models 1 (vlorv2) 


23.0 


Extreme Delight 


26.0 


Extreme Hot Girls 


25.C 


Extreme Hot Leather 


25.0 


Faol (v1,v2, orv3) 


26,0 


FaoGold! (v1,v2. orv3) 


35.0 


High Volume Nudes 


29.0 


Hooter Heaven 


26.D 


Hot Sex 


29.C 


Mark of Zera 


26.( 


Swim Suits 2 the MaXX 


26.0 


T 1 A 2 the MaXX 


20.0 



Inlo 610-586-5701 

Tech 610-586-5704 

FAX 610-586-5706 

Hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 6 

Sat 10 to 4 ~ Eastern 



Orders 

800-932-6442 



Software Hut 




Personal Palnl v6.1 
Power and intuitive paint, image 
processing, animation and 24-bit 
printing package. Employ stunning 
effects like Emboss, Watercolors, 
Transparancies. and Stereograms 
('Magic Eye"). 

$49.95 

Personal Fonts Maker 
Powerltil tool for designing, and 
processing fonts. Can output lonts 
In formats which can be read by 
ot tie r Amiga programs, by other 
computers and by a vast range of 
dillering printers (even 48 pin and 
laser printers). 

$39.95 

Personal Bundle 

Includes Personal Paint & Fonts 

Maker. 

$79.95 

DKBA2632 RAM Board 

A 32-bit RAM Expansion Board for 

the CBM A2630 Accelerator Card. 

Allows 32-bit RAM beyond 4MB. 

expandable to 112Mb using 32-bit 

wide SIMMs. Faster than RAM on 

A2630 and full Burst Mode support. 

Perfect fnr Video, Graphics, 

Animations, and DTP. 
$189.00 

Options: 

Add 4Mb RAM - $169.00 

Add 8Mb RAM -319.00 

Add 16Mb RAM - S599.00 

Add 32Mb RAM - $1 189.00 

DKB Cobra Board 

A multi-function board for the 
Amiga 1200. Includes: 68030 lor up 
to 6 times faster speed; room for up 
to 128Mb of 32-bit RAM using one 
industry standard SIMM; clock- 
calendar. Add an optional Math-Co 
up to 40Mz. 

Super NEW Price! 

1240 28MZ RC CPU - $159.00 

1240 40Mz EC CPU - $249.00 

Options: 

Add 33Mz 68882 FPU - $79.00 

Add 1Mb RAM - $49.00 

Add 2Mb RAM - $89.00 

Add 4Mb RAM - $159.00 

Add 8Mb RAM - $309.00 

DKB Video Tape Backup 
Back up your system lo your VCR 
using inexpensive video tapes. 
Works on all Amigas including the 
A4000. Performs at 1Mb per 
minule. Complete with all software 
and cabling. 

$89.95 

The Clock 

Installs internally in your A1200 on 
the clock header of the 
Motherboard. Automatically 
recognized by AmigaOOS. 
$17.95 




DKB MegAchlp 

Expands your Amiga 500 or 2000 to 
2Mb of Chip-RAM. great lor all 
graphic applications, including the 
Video Toaster. Included is the DKB 
board w/1Mb of additional Chip- 
RAM and a 2Mb Agnus. Complete 
with manual for easy installation. 
Call 

DKB A312B RAM Board 
A 32-bit RAM Expansion Board for 
A3000/4000 owners. Allows 32-bit 
RAM expansion lo 146Mb using 
industry standard 4. 3. 16. & 32Mb 
SIMMs. Easily installs in any slot. A 
MUST HAVE for Toaster users. 

$249.00 
Options: Same as A2632 on left, 

DKB A12D2 Board 

A multi-function board for the 
A1200. Provides the max Fast-RAM 
expansion possible plus a clock- 
calendar. The 2 sockets allow 1. 2, 
4. or 8Mb RAM using standard 32- 
bit SIMMs. Optional Math-Co can 
speed up malh-intensive programs 
as much as 10 times, or more. 
1202. no FPU. OK • $99.95 
Options: 

Add WMz 68882 -$32.95 
Add 25MZ 68882 - $57.95 
Add 33Mz 68882 -$74.95 
Add 40MI 68882 -$134.95 
Add RAM - Same as Cobra Board 

KwlkStarl 2 

Allows A1000 owners to install 2 
different Kickstart ROM chips. 
Upgrade lo latest OS without using 
system memory yet you can still 
boot from disk-based Kickstarts. 
$54.95 

DKB Mongoose Board 
Mutti-function board for the At 200 
features: 50MZ 68030 RC CPU 
w/MMU plus 50Mz 68B82 FPU; 
room for up lo 128Mb o! 32-bit 
RAM (Same as DKB Cobra Board). 
$359.95 

DKB SCSI-2 Activator 
Activation Kit enables SCSI-1 or 
SCSI-2 devices to connect to either 
the Cobra or Mongoose Boards 
$89.95 

DKB 4091 SCSI Controller 
High-Performance, DMA, Fast 
SCSI-2 controller for Zorro3 
expansion slots. Includes SCSI 
internal connector, ribbon cable, t» 
hardware to Install a 3.5' HO on Ihe 
board and a high-density SCSI-2 
external connector. 

$349.95 

Disk Expander 

This software doubles the capacity 
of your floppy or hard drives. Easy 
to install and works without notice, 
in the background. Compression 
ratios very tram 30% to 70%. 
$37.95 



M0D0 B-Forcc- 040-10 

GVPSlMM32 4Mb60Ns 
GVP SIMM 32 16Mb 60NS 


$949.00 
219.00 
999.00 


A2000 G-Forcr 040-33 Combo 


$1099.00 


PhonePalVFXJ.D 


1219.95 


4006 SCSI2 Controller 


5149.00 


TBC Plus 
Comb Filler 
Frame RAM Modulo 


$599.95 
99.00 
1B9.00 


ECS 2S/24 Spectrum 


$379.00 


1230 Twin SCSI tOUtl 4MB 
1230 SCSI Ser2 50Mz 4Mb 
1291 SCSI Controller for 1230 
FPU 50Ma lor 1230 Accelerator 


£399.00 

499.D0 

89,95 

99.00 




MilnAclor Proleiiloml - A full leatured 
animation program. Works with all Amigas 
Willi sgscial support lor Picasso 2 owners. 

S79.95 

Aiii Una • A Zorio-2 Ethernet card offering 
10Base-2 (Cheapernet) & 10Base-t 
(Twisted pair). Features: 2 parallel ports: 
32K Bufler; boot eprom option; SANA! 
compatible drivers & Envoy network 
software. DOS 2.04 or above is required. 
$299.00 

Liim Network - Simple & powerful "peer- 
to-peer' network via Amipa parallel ports. 
Includes: cable: Envoy network software; 
SANA-2 compatible driver; up to 40KI>/$ec 
transfers; user accounting. 
$89.93 

Pablo - A video module for your Picasso 2 
card permitting output to your TV or VCR. 
Quality comparable to nigh-performance 
video broadcast encoders. Includes: RCA, S- 
VHS & SCART cables; 24-bit animation 
program. 

$179.95 

Picatio ! Solid wffMh ■ The best 24-bit 
graphics board tor the Amiga 2000. 3000, 
and 4000 is now back in stock! 
$499.00 



AVPro 



Completely re-written version of 

AmigaVision. Limited supplies. 

$69.95 

Amiga Vision - $24.95 

Amiga Clips vl Sound FX for AmigaVision 

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Personal Paint 6. 1 (PP) is an update to 
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PP now provides AGA support, while 
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bility. Virtual RAM. autoscrolling, Amiga 
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are but some of the improvements. 

Easily Customized 

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Personal Paint's animation tools are 




PPaint otters exceptional AGA graphics. 

basic at best, with no Move or Tweening 
requesters, and no animbrush function. 
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frame playback speeds and multiple 
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er on the Go To Frame requester flips 
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mum compression. 

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such as palette merging, color statistics, 
color reduction and Floyd-Steinberg 
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detect, lighten and darken, randomize, 
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age processing to brushes, the whole 
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areas as rectangles, freehand shapes, or 
brush objects. The new Transparency fil- 
ter provides partial rubthroughs and 
transparent brush application. Although 
you can use the new Alpha Channel 
transparency capability only when ap- 



plying brush objects to the image, it pro- 
vides custom transparency control of the 
brush area. 

New processing fillers produce two 
types of color stereograms: SIRDS (Sin- 
gle Image Random Dot Stereograms) 
and SIPS (Single Image Pattern Stere- 
ograms). Stereogram combines gray- 
scale 3-D patterns loaded into the swap 
screen with any colorful image you load 
into the main screen. It can also combine 
a brush tile pattern with the 3-D gray- 
scale image to produce stereograms. It's 
fast and easy to use, taking onlv a few 
seconds to combine the images to create 
a fascinating stereogram. 

PP's palette requester produces color 
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scalable fonts, and even settled 
bitmapped fonts, and non-destructive 
text entry keeps text off the screen im- 
age until you turn off the text-entry func- 
tion or reposition the cursor with the 
mouse. 

Personal Paint supports PostScript 
and Preferences printers, and it includes 
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DeskJet 550C. There's also an interest- 
ing brush Shear tool that behaves like a 
combination of shear and perspective, 
and you'll find a Curve tool that pro- 
duces Bezier curves with movable end 
points and two control points for adjust- 
ing the curve's shape. 

A Bit Lacking 

As with most programs, there are a few 
shortcomings. For instance, Personal 
Paint still lacks a Symmetry tool, and the 
fill patterns remain limited. Furthermore, 
there is no ARexx support, and the Floyd- 
Steinberg dithering calculations lend to 
be slow when remapping or reducing col- 
ors, even on an A4000/040 with 18MB of 
RAM. It is also excruciatingly slow when 
loading and converting 24-bit or HAMS 
images into the current screen format, 
but I must admit that the eventual result 
is excellent. 

Personal Paint (5. 1 is nonetheless a sol- 
id performer. Users of ParXet can now 
rest easy with Personal Paint 6.1, for the 
earlier problems have been solved. Its 
unique features and special abilities with 
2-D animation should make this im- 
proved Personal Paint a line addition to 
your graphics arsenal. 

— Fred Hurteau ■ 



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have been knit into a careful, coherent whole, and the result 
seems almost like an adventure game. 

Well, OK. An action-adventure game. You're the only sur- 
vivor ol an attempt lo retake an alien-infested human base on 
Ara/.in 2K. built around seven great, interconnected towers. 
And you're still running around messy hallways — the best- 
looking messy hallways yet — greasing the Breed and collect- 
ing keys, ammo, first-aid kits and money. (Everybody who lives 
here may look like last night's chicken dinner, but you still have 
to pay for your guns.) 

The main instrument for this new approach is the "smart- 
cards" strewn about the landscape — electronic text messages 
that keep you posted on your position and what needs doing 
in a given region. They're plentiful, concise and poignant, 
and nicely supplemented by entries on the familiar INTEX ter- 
minals. The story, which so often seems an afterthought (or a 
neverthought) in arcaders, is always a step away. 

Another major plus is a new open-endedness. 'lliis isn't another 
ladder of sequential levels. Team 1 7 reports that there are more 
than 250 paths through the game, and I believe them. Any giv- 
en area may have several exits, and that also lends itself more to 
a sense of place. (The game's more rational in other respects as 
well. You can now fire while walking backward, and. indoors, 
summon a map of your surrounding at the press of a button.) 

finally, there's a level of spectacle and charity here nor- 
mally associated only with IBM games. The CD32 version 
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is included on the CD as a heebie. 

On the other hand, I'm disappointed that the CD32 version 
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words. And the enemy Ai is almost nonexistant. There may be 
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backers after a ball carrier, with no consideration for either per- 
sonal longevity or a larger alien agenda. They never open a 



By Peter Ola/son, AW Games Editor 




Tower Assault: Team 17's latest adventure In the 
Alien Breed series, 

door, never use supplies, never retreat, never force an issue. 
Consequently, since you're basically fighting drones, no sense of 
hng-voursell danger accompanies lower Assault, and occasion- 
ally the btmch-of'-levels, shoot-'em-up feel comes Hooding back. 
Then again, each of the AB games lo date has represented 
an incremental step forward. But a step to where? Perhaps the 
next game — Alien Breed 3D — .holds the answer. 



3-D Free-Scrolling Update 



(Editor's Note: This update to "Special Report: 3-D Free-Scrolling Ac- 
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Open Ere. "Hie first bona fide Wolfenstein-style Amiga games 
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some new players have entered the scene. 

Death Mask (Alternative) 

It isn't Doom by the longest shot. It's not even really Wolfen- 
stein 3-D. Bui, taken on its own terms, Death Mask is nol a bad 
beginning. »- 



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Some complications have been wound around the basic 
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Fears (Bomh) 

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It's well worth the time and though) you'll have to put in. 
(Don't worry — you'll eventually reach an epiphany ai which it 
all begins to How together.) There's nothing quite like Robin- 
son's Requiem for sheer intensity and detail in maintaining 
one's physical well-being. It's also a genuine 3-D environment. 
You can climb on top of the surrounding hills and peer down 
on the leafy plain you just left. 

Alas, the game's speed is wretched. Even on a 40-MHz 
A 1 200, 1 had to knock the view window and detail for theAGA 
version down to the lower settings to achieve something 
resembling smooth movement. (There's also a standard 
Amiga version.) And you can't talk to other characters. They 
just talk atyow. (B + ) 

Alien Breed 3D (Team 17) 

After quietly dropping the project in the shadow of Doom 
some months back, England's most dedicated Amiga game 
publisher is again forging ahead with Alien Breed 3D lor East- 
er release — using the game engine devised by Andrew 
Clitheroe (and featured in December's A W), 

It will be for AGA machines only, and will support hard disk 
and accelerators. (The game should run 7-8 times faster on 
an A4000 well supplied with RAM.) Features will include 
multiangle walls, light sourcing, more than 18 objects on 
screen at a time and an optional full-screen display. 

Also, unlike Doom, Alien Breed 3D will oiler a true three- 
dimensional environment in which more than one object can 
occupy the same vertical plain. In other words, it allows you 
to have bridges, and rooms on top of other rooms. (Doom's 
creators won't be implementing that feature themselves until 
Quake, slated for release in late '95.) 

Brown said Team 1 7 has seen a number of engines that run 
faster, but not with this level of texture mapping. "We could 
speed things up," he wrote in a message posted to the Inter- 
net, "but we want detail]" 

(Note: AB3D may not be the last of it. The rumor mill sug- 
gests at least two other major Amiga developers are coiitem- 
plaiiug Doom-style games.) 

Poom 0.3b (Jussi Salmi andJanneJvhola) 

In this beta, at least, the basic rules of Poom 0.2 still hold true. 
To paraphrase Shirley Jackson, walls continue to meet at right 
angles, lloors are firm and flat, and whoever walks in Poom, 
walks alone. 

The good news is that the much-anlieipated third incarna- 
tion of this great, forbidding demo is finally game-bound. A 
roughly drawn band and pistol now adorns the foreground — 
firing soundlessly via the shift keys — but there doesn't seem to 
be anything to blow away in litis version. However, you roam 
this new level (which contains a number of striking new wall 
graphics) in resolutions up to a lull-screen 320x2f)(> al decent 
speed on an '030-equipped A 1200. 

And that's with textured floor and ceiling. Now, how about 
a little sound? 

TextDemo6 (John Hendrikx) 

In which the author makes the transition from a Wolfenstein 
engine with Doom graphics to a real Doom engine. Raised 
platforms, textured lloors, and a Doom-like bounce in the 
player's steps are among the pleasant additions that appear in 
this unreleased beta. 



Of course, the thing about betas is that they aren't done. 
Text Demo is slated to include multiple-height wails (which 
make things like staircases possible). And monsters? Also still 
to come. A skeleton hangs across a doorway in this version, but 
doesn't do anything. However, I'm told the final version will 
have critters, and that you'll be able to whack them with lire- 
balls that illuminate the room as they flv by. 

Dentaku 26 (Silltuna) 

Alex Amsel's game engine has come a long way from the orig- 
inal DentAWolf demo. This AGA game-in-progress is now 
called Dentaku 2(3, and it's among the best pure Wolfenstein- 
type games I've seen — even in this early, unpopulated form. 
The version sent to me last fall was brimming with graphic 
detail, with see-through walls, textured ceilings and doors, a 
vivid viewscreen, and even a few corpses on the floor for good 
measure. (The monsters that killed 'em were evidently all on 
break.) It all runs briskly on a '030-based A1200. too.' 

A level editor is slated to be included when this surfaces in 
spring, And Amsel reports thai Amiga musician extraordinaire 
Allislcr Brimble has signed on lo handle Dentaku's sound. 

Warp S (Oliver Groth) 

Groth'sjabberwocky Texture Mapper has likewise undergone 
a metamorphosis. Warp S, as it's now called, has moved in- 
doors, in the process gaining speed and monsters (who trun- 
dle about on fixed routes and pay no attention to you). But it 
also appears to have lost some of its definition and its line. 
Doom-like effects. And it may wind up as an IBM game in- 
stead. (Like the IBM needs another Doom-style game, right?) 

Amiga-Wolf3D 1.1 (STL/Damage) 

It's a shame this Finnish demo has seen only limited distribu- 
tion, for it captures the Wolfenstein feel almost perfectly in 
its effortless flow and array of simple objects and hot colors. A 
few German soldiers running about, yelling "Achtung!" and 
"Luftwaffe," and we'd be ail set. (There's not much collision 
detection, though.) 

Motion (Bomb) 

A worthy followup to Origin's Complex. Motion migrates 
through the usual polygon rotations and overflights of 
Comanchc-style voxel landscapes to a Doom-y tower climb — 
all the while running speedily and in full-screen mode on 
an '030-based A 1200. 

fhe kicker is that, just before it ends, ii turns the control 
over to you. allowing you lo explore ibis stony landscape at 
will. Not to mention taking a fall off the lower — an effect we 
haven't seen to date. Really excellent stuff. (Unfortunately, it 
does have a glitch that turns up when yon walk too close to a 
side wall.) 

Killing Time (Oxyron) 

fhe 3-D portion of this four-disker is significant, but amounts 
to an exercise in animating wall tiles. Some nice effects, loo, 
but the tiles themselves don't seem quite connected to one 
another. (It's rather like looking at splayed playing cards.) 

Psychedelic (Virtual Dreams) 

Nice floor and ceiling textures, but, like VD's earlier Full Moon 
demo, this segment — a scant few seconds of a three-disk epic — 
is over almost as soon as it begins. (And actually, the 3-D part 
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I Shot Kurt Cobain (Razor) & Quartex (Quartex) 
The size of these two entries in 'Hie Part)' H)94 demo competi- 
tion (under 40K) is more impressive than their contents. 'Hie 
low-res scroll through a tit-up town in the irrelevantly titled 1 

Shoi Kurt Cobain is rather pleasant — even without much depth 
of field. However, the 3-D segment in the Quartex demo is 
utterly nondescript. Lots of people are pushing this technology 
now, but if they're not going to do something new, why bother? 



R i S V. R V e 

Wolf 3-D (Terence Russell) 

An omission. This Wolfenstein-style demo has been around at 
least since last summer, but, due to space constraints, it was left 
out of the December roundup. Itty-bitty in scope (some of 
these demos cover less territory than a suburban duplex) and 
less attractive than the competition — it uses black-and-white 
wall tiles against a harvest-orange backdrop — this moves OK. 
But, by now, it's likely to seem quite dated. 



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Rise of the Robots (Mirage) is just the name for this beauti- 
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Squeak (Audiogenic) is an utterly charming platfonner that 
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Chicken and the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip. It has heart, 
this one (A-), Bubba 'N* Stix (Core Design) is a tough, 
inventive arcader in which you'll have to sort out how to use 
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Q. I want to upgrade my Workbench 1.3- 
equipped Amiga 2000HD, and Amiga- 
World is my only remaining connection 
with this ever-diminishing pursuit. I can't 
walk into an Amiga shop any more, as they 
no longer exist in my area. Can you help} 

First, can I upgrade directly (rant Amiga- 
DOS 1.3 to 3.1? Will my old software 
work under the new OS? Ij not. will it he 
able to trad my old files? And. can you tell 
me where I might find a real Amiga guru? 
Diana Probus 
McCook, Nebraska 

A. Software compatibility is a common 
concern in jumping from 1.3 to 3.1. It's 
probably safe to iissunic you could install 
the new OS software and swap the new 
Kickstan ROM chip for the old, and, 
provided the installation goes well, all 
your current software should work line. 

However, msullkiciit chip RAM could 
cause problems with the new OS. First, 
you need to be sure that your A200I) has 
at least 1MB of chip RAM. If" you're not 
sure, open a Shell window, type AVAIL, 
and press RETURN, The amount of 
chip and fast RAM will appear. If your 
system has only "il^Kof chip RAM, you 
might be able to use AmigaDOS 8.1, but 
mav run into problems running some 
graphics-intensive applications. Several 
of the larger Amiga distributors might 
be able to upgrade your system with 
more chip RAM at a nominal cost. 

Finally, it's tough for me to be 
objective, but I think AmigaWorld 
remains your best .source of informa- 
tion. If anyone is aware of a belter 
collection of gurus, please let us know! 



Dissolving Icons 

Q. I recently purchased an Amiga 1200. 
After the machine has been tin for 15 minutes 
or so. the icons on the Workbench start lo 
"tear," and ajier about 30 minutes, the entire 
screen breaks up. I've tried different multi- 
sync monitors and screen modes, all ivith lite 



same results. Is it it defective chip, oris 
something wrong with my copy of WB 3.0? 
James A. Garrett 

Peoria, Arizona 

A. Let's hope the problem is not a had 
chip. With the exception of the AI200's 
Kicksiari ROM, all the motherboard 
chips are surface-mounted and sol- 
dered into place, and von cannot swap 
them easily. When a surface-mounted 
chip dies, it's cheaper to replace the 
motherboard, providing you can locate 
a replacement. Check .Amiga mail- 
order companies for such a hoard. 

It mav not, however, be a bad chip. 
It could be a virus or a weakening 
power supply. Get a copy of a virus 
utilitv such as Virus Checker and run 
it. If it delects no virus, see if you can 
borrow a power supply to use with your 
machine. Leave it plugged in for a 
while and see if the problem continues. 
If it doesn't, you've found the culprit 



Anniversary Surprises 

(?. My Amiga 4000 is equipped with 
1SMB o} RAM. OpalVision and Implant 
cards, a CD-ROM tlrk'c. and three hard 
drives. One tear after purchase, the mother- 
board died. Or at least that's what the 
technicians who fixed it told me. At the lime, 
it had 6MB of RAM, OpalVision, and the 
original 1 20MB hard drive. 

One year later, the computer has seized up 
again, and the motherboard is deemed 
responsible. Have you heard of any design 
flairs on the A4000? The technicians from 
two different dealerships discounted the items 
that I've added as causing the problem. My 
machine's serial number is 000X21. 

Abel Rodriguez 
Glen Oaks, NY 

A. I've checked with numerous sources, 
but no one seems lo know of any prob- 
lems with motherboard failure in early 
versions ol'ihe A4000. 1 also have the 
original, early-revision motherboard in 
mine, and (knock on wood) have 



swapped all manner of cards and devices 
in and out of il without any ill elfecls. 
Although it's unlikely, the Opal- 
Vision card might be the culprit. More 
likely, it is power related. Power 
surges, static in the carpeting, or 
unplugging and plugging in compo- 
nents while the machine is on are all 
possible causes. If you don't have one 
already, get a surge protector. 



Amiga Newsgroups 

Q. Do you know of any Amiga newsgroups 
or World Wide Web sites on the Net. I 
-would appreciate any info. 

Wes McCoy 
wesmac@ hooked, net 

A. On the Usenet newsgroups, comput- 
ers are broken down bv type, If you go 
lo comp/sys and list the major news- 
groups, you'll see four Amiga news- 
groups: all. sources. amiga, comp.bina- 
ries.amiga, comp.sources.amiga, and 
comp.sys. amiga. The first three are 
conference areas, while comp/sys/amiga 
is a true newsgroup. You'll see that it's 
broken down into 17 conferences, 
ranging from advocacy to reviews. The 
one thai seems to get the most traffic is 
comp.sys. amiga.misc, which is a gen- 
eral discussion area. 

Another interesting conference is 
comp.sys. amiga. marketplace, which 
lists Amiga hardware and software for 
sale — a lifesaver if you're seeking a 
particularly tough-to-find component. 

There are roughly a dozen popular 
Amiga FTP sites, and a WWW site is 
reportedly under construction. Don't 
overlook the Internet's Aminet site as 
a source of files. .And GEnie has set up 
an Aminet OnTap option, which treats 
users of its Amiga Roundtable to new 
uploads retrieved from Aminet on 
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Kudos, complaints, comments, concerns, and contributions from our readers. 



Happy Birthday, Amiga! 

Ten years ago, Jay Miner designed a 
computer that was truly a user-friendly 
machine. Now, tile Amiga has made 
possible advances in animation and 
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boundaries creativity into realms never 
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Honestly, Now, 
Mac and IBM . . . 

As a longtime Amigan, I find myself 
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gas without really knowing much about 
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Could you invite an expert from each 
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Eric T. Anktin 
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Hanging In There 

In my increasing frustration with the 
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/ expect that this dithering 
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times of trouble, you have also been 
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Please accept my subscription as 
another devoted Amigan putting his 
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Paul Lara 
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It's remarkable that AmigaWorld is hang- 
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In response to your March editorial 
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future direction, my most urgent hope is 
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the A500 and 3. 1! Granted that we live 
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and more hard-earned dollars to tip- 
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1 operate a home-based, custom 
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